[TriLUG] SpamAssassin question

[Jon Carnes]

Doug,

The Razor and RBL list, etc are dual edged swords. By default
MailScanner assigns them low values (and properly so) thus most times
they don't affect the outcome. As such I generally think of them as just
cpu wasting - and a needless delay of mail (probably not much of a delay
for you).  YMMV.

In any case, I wouldn't worry too much initially about these. You'll
come to love them... then to hate them... then you'll pretty much just
ignore them. :-)

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:38, Douglas Ward wrote:
> I apologize for dumping all of my questions on the list at once but I am stuck in one other place.  After setting up spamassassin to work with MailScanner I am working on razor, pyzor, and dcc.  I have MailScanner set to use them with the following MailScanner.conf entry:
> 
> # paths to utilities
> pyzor_path /usr/bin/pyzor
> dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
> 
> # Uncomment the lines below to stop using the specific service
> # To stop Razor2 checks, uncomment the following line
> # use_razor2            0
> # To stop DCC checks, uncomment the following line
> # use_dcc               0
> # To stop Pyzor checks, uncomment the following line
> #  use_pyzor    0
> 
> 
> # The timeouts for blacklists and Razor are rather generous in the
> # default state that SpamAssassin is shipped. Reducing these
> # stops a lot of timeouts from removing SpamAssassin scores
> # altogether.
> 
> rbl_timeout 20
> razor_timeout 10
> pyzor_timeout 10
> 
> 
> I downloaded and installed the rpm's for all three packages from urpmi.  The above entries are pretty much the MailScanner defaults.  Is this all I have to do?  Do I need to set up any auto updating or configure these three packages initially?  Please forgive the newbie question but I can't seem to make much sense of the documentation on these three individual packages.  Mail is being delivered through the gateway properly so I assume there aren't any configuration issues.  Any help would be most appreciated.  Thanks again!
> 
> Douglas Ward
> Director of Information Technology
> NC Methodist Conference
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