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
Spam Filtering
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
spammers and the filters
Came across a very interesting entry on Justin Mason's blog: Open Source v Closed Source spam filtering which explains how spammers test closed-source email filters. I suppose it makes sense, but it's still quite scary that theyse people invest so much time and effort in circumventing company's best efforts to protect their clients' inboxes. … [Read more...] about spammers and the filters
Spam – the new frontier?
Ross pasted a link to me this morning which had me in stitches: Spammers Sending Messages from the Future … [Read more...] about Spam – the new frontier?
RBL blocking
Just reading a few of the lists this morning and noticed the usual problems with using an RBL to block mail at the MTA level(name removed to protect the original poster's identity): "But the problem is, some of my users also are unable to send their emails using SMTP server as their "dynamic" IP is banned because some of the ips are listed in spamhaus. They keep getting the … [Read more...] about RBL blocking