Gabriel-
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:41:54 -0500, Poor, Edmund W
wrote:
>
> Can we install Spam Assassin software on the wikien-l mailing list? How
> about other mailing lists?
>
> Anthere and I have gotten tired of reading and deleting up to 30 daily
> spam, spam, spam, ham, eggs and spam (hasn't got MUCH spam in it) every
> day -- the joke gets old after a while.
>
> Ed Poor
> Wikien-l Admin Emeritus
I have to add that spamassassin uses a bit of cpu for
its processing, but
at the rather low volume of mails processed by the mailing lists this
shouldn't be a problem.
Because of mydoom I strongly recommend using a procmail filter for killing
attachments *before* they reach SpamAssassin. Before I did so SA literally
killed my system because it hit internal file limits. The following rule
works well:
:0 B
* ^ *Content-Disposition: attachment;
* filename=".*\.(pif|exe|scr|zip|bat|cmd)"
virus
It kills zip files, too, but this shouldn't be a problem for the mailing
list. In fact we might want to filter all mails that contain attachments -
use URLs instead.
SpamAssassin is very good at killing spam, but it is not very well suited
for attachment filtering because of its slowness for large mails.
Regards,
Erik