[CLUE-Tech] A real MTA

[dan radom]

* Mike Staver (staver at fimble.com) wrote:
> 
> > * Sean LeBlanc (seanleblanc at americanisp.net) wrote:
> > > Getting sick and tired of seeing all these incoming virus mails that
> > > SpamAssassin is not catching, I decided I'd install mailscanner. The problem
> > > is that I'm not using a "real" MTA right now. I just use fetchmail and
> > > ssmtp.
> > > 
> > 
> > grep MICROS .spamassassin/user_prefs
> > score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 100.0
> > 
> > they don't get past spamassassin here!
> > 
> 
> Yes, but does that test actually work??  I use SA on my Red Hat 9 boxes 
> right now, and it's wonderful.  I then purchased SpamKiller from Network 
> Associates, which is supposed to be SA for exchange, with Network 
> Associates loving touch and a crappy gui control panel.  I was getting a 
> lot of those spam virus messages through my exchange server, and I upped 
> the score of that test, and it did nothing.  So, maybe it should specifiy 
> exactly which executables get blocked... I can't comment on how that test 
> works on linux because I haven't changed the value of the score yet since 
> I have that procmail script deleting those emails immediately.  

It scores all the *bad* ms executables as 100, which is way above my
required_hits.  works like a charm.