MailScanner Anti spam

We used it at work for our entire email system and it did quite a good job. Afraid I can't comment on the setup of it as I wasnt involved.
 
It did quite a good job? :S. Have you replaced it?

From what I've read on the web it seems like a fairly good system. Probably worth giving it a try anyway.
 
Its still in use but I'm not working there anymore. Like I said, I didn't manage it but spam did get through regularly, probably due to lack of management of the filters and rules.

Linux magazine did a review/comparison of anti-spam tools for Linux mail servers a while back, I'll dig it out when I get home and tell you what they found. I think they rated Mailscanner pretty highly.
 
FirebarUK said:
Linux magazine did a review/comparison of anti-spam tools for Linux mail servers a while back, I'll dig it out when I get home and tell you what they found. I think they rated Mailscanner pretty highly.
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I'd appreciate that. I have been looking for some reviews but not had much joy.

Cheers,
 
With SpamAssassin, it's pretty good, simple to install and configure and doesn't require much in the way of hardcore tweaking to achieve acceptable results. The biggest improvement that we've added recently was the spamassassin rules updater (sa-update) but otherwise it's a fairly standard install and works well :).
 
I've found that in testing just blocking any invalid domains cuts out 70-80% of spam. So that coupled with spam assassin and antivurs stuff it should work quite well.
 
Ive recently stopped using MailScanner and have started using ASSP. Its extremely light on resources and highly configurable.
 
Hi,

Sorry for the huge delay, I havent forgotten but I think I've left the issue in question at my parents house. I'll dig it up tomorrow.
 
JonRohan said:
Any of you Unix / Linux bods use MailScanner anti spam?

I'd like to hear peoples opinions on it if possible. :)

Regards,

Jon
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Mailscanner is brilliant - we filter thousands of e-mails/day through it. Coupled with some RBL-based blocks at the mailserver level, you should see low load and very little spam.

Our customers certainly don't ever contact us about spam anymore :)

Razor is a great addon, as is the SARE ruleset.

People say ASSP is lighter on resources but I've never used it so can't comment :)

~60% of our incoming mail is dropped by Exim before it even gets to Mailscanner/SA, so that shows the power of checking for invalid domains, invalid HELOs, RBL listings, etc!
 
I would highly reccomend taking a look at ASSP. I used to use Spamasassin, SARE rules and its agents DCC, Razor etc as well as RBL's and other ACL's like dictionary deny etc.

ASSP supports things like:

BAYESIAN
Local addresses checks
HELO
RBL
SPF
PTR
URIBL
BombRe
MX/A
Delaying
Forged HELO
Penalty Box
Antivirus (Using ClamAV)

0.76% avg cpu usage too :)

You also have a web administration interface which allows you to confirgure the system down to every detail. There are also a lot of control panel addons around which allow individual clients to decide how they want their mail to be filtered.



The site for ASSP is here: http://assp.sourceforge.net/

Chris.
 
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