On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 02:54, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:01, D. D. Brierton wrote: > You may also want to check out the SARES web site. They maintain a > large number of additional rule sets that can help detect spam. They > are easy to add to your system and they have a method to pull updates > automatically (I just update manually as needed). Interesting. I will have to look that up when I get home. (where I have I-net access) > > The SURBL option examines the URLs in the spam messages and checks > various block lists. If they show up on the block list the score is > increased appropriately. I was just asking that question. Thanks for clearing that up. So, effectively, it's just another form of greylisting then. > One suggestion, set things up to run spamassassin only on non mailing > list messages. That will improve the speed of email processing on your > system. I have seen very little spam in the mailing lists so this seems > to be a reasonable process. That depends actually, Most mailing lists runs some sort of spam checks. But some don't. eg: ACPI-Devel. Now, that one does not, it even has viruses coming in. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 19:08:34 up 9:34, 6 users, 0.36, 0.38, 0.36
