Spam Assassin 3 was released the other day, so I started rolling it out across as many servers as possible. We had already been testing it on a couple without encountering any issues, so putting the stable version should have been quite easy. In most cases it was, except for one Red Hat 9 server. It simply refused to go on properly. If I got it past the install, either via … [Read more...] about Spam Assassin 3 problems
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BitDefender issue
A number of people reported severe problems with the bitdefender update scripts yesterday. Seemingly the processes were hanging and eating up CPU. Kevin Spicer found a good interim solution: vim /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-autoupdate Comment out the following two lines: LINE 190 system "$bitDCmd > $origFile "; LINE 253 system "$bitDCmd > $destFile "; You then need to … [Read more...] about BitDefender issue
SA3 – RC3
Julian released a set of scripts to install Spam Assassin RC3 yesterday for both rpm and non-rpm based distros. You can get them here and maybe you'll have more luck with them than I did :mrgreen: I couldn't get it to work on the Whitebox machine I was trying to install it on, as it would not overwrite the contents of /usr/share/spamassassin After trying to rectify this in a … [Read more...] about SA3 – RC3
Throttling by IP
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm contains a number of handy little features that are not "on" by default. One which came up on the list today was IPBlock which allows you to control the maximum number of emails from a particular IP per hour. This might be useful for combatting infected machines spewing email at servers, but it still does not address the issue of … [Read more...] about Throttling by IP
MailScanner: Stable 4.33.3 released
Julian released 4.33.3 this morning. It's basically a stable version based on the beta released a couple of days ago. He also released some SpamAssassin v3 related scripts yesterday, but they seem to have been removed from the downloads list (or maybe I'm blind) … [Read more...] about MailScanner: Stable 4.33.3 released