Hi, I also use spamassassin/procmail to treat spams. However, I feel that SA does not scan for viruses. Am I wrong? That is why I am looking for a virus-scanner. I found that many virus-scaning packages strongly recommend sendmail with milter support, and mention that sendmail without milter is "old". That is why I originally post this question here: I install the sendmail on fc1, but did not see any reference about milter. Is sendmail without milter really old? where can I get milter for sendmail on fc1? or no way? Scot, the url link you provided is very useful. I did it similar, but I will improve my setting. A few questions, see *** below. Please help. Thanks! Hongwei ==============Original message text=============== On Mon, 17 May 2004 6:07:04 pm CDT "Scot L. Harris" wrote: I set this up using sendmail/spamassassin/procmail. I think this is the url that had the best information for doing this. http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/spam/ A couple of things I did differently was to add a rule in procmail to flag a message when it went through so spamassassin did not get run against the same message twice. *** Could you tell me what rule do you add to avoid "twice scan"? Also to have a single bayseian database I invoked spamc with the -u option to specify a dedicated user (spamuser) so the database is kept under that users home directory. *** what is spamuser? a special user you set for spamassassin? I don't see this point in spamassassin doc. Could you explain it more? The only other thing you need to know is that the bayseian database rules are not applied until you have run several hundred spam and ham messages through it. The easiest way to do that is to use sa-learn to process known spam and ham which you can collect from yours or other users accounts. *** This will be a more general "strange question". Most of my users don't know how to run ssh to connect to our email server. The only thing they know is to use pop3 mail tool (Netscape mail, Outlook express, etc.) to read/send emails (I don't blam them, they are experts in other fields). To my undersdanding, each user needs to run sa-learn to let his/her own bayseian database learn about spam and non-spam (different users may have different opinion: I do have 2 users asking me just completely opposit qustion about the same mail. One said this mail should be blocked, while the other saked why this mail is marked as "spam"). If the users don't know how to run ssh (I disabled telnet), how can they run sa-learn? Is there any way that the system admin (root, superuser) can run sa-learn for other users, i.e. to make their bayseian database learn about "their" spam and non-spam? This has worked very well. In the last few weeks there has been a tremendous increase in spam, I think due to several worms that have hit the net. Suggest at first you move all spam to a holding area so you can review it to make sure you do not see any false positives. I did not see any real problems with that here but it is better to be safe about it. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> ===========End of original message text===========
