[juneau-lug] Re: SPAM filtering...

Hi Kevin!

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Kevin Miller wrote:

> 
> I'm curious too.  Where did you set the ulimits Myron?  Is that in
> MIMEDefang, sendmail, other?  Did you have SpamAssassin running on it as
> well? What are you using now?  Did it just reject outright the large
> packages?

You run a ulimit kbsize, in your init script so your mail package
won't use more then X amount of memory.

> 
> SpamAssassin is set by default (I believe) to not process messages over 200
> kb, but I think they're still let through so if it's choking it would see to
> be in the antivius milter or some additional functionality that MIMEDefang
> adds.  Amazingly, the MIMEDefang guys are very responsive to email.  I've
> written several commmercial vendors with questions and never qot a reply.
> They answered w/in 20 minutes yesterday.  If you can give more details, I'd
> be interested in asking them about the issue.

I use amavis now for everything, it does a good job albeit a bit slow.

> 
> I think they sell support for it too, but haven't checked out the details
> yet.  That's a nice plus in a production environment; newsgroups and mail
> lists are great, but if you're up against the wall it's nice to have a live
> body to call for instant help.  CanIt is a commercial package based on
> MIMEDefang which I'm going to look at as well.   It seems to be MD on
> steroids, web interface, etc...
> 
> ...Kevin
> -------------------
> Kevin Miller 
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
> Administrator
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
>  
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: James Zuelow [mailto:e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:34 AM
> >To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: SPAM filtering...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Myron Davis" <myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >> I ran MIMEDefang and ran into limitations w/ large emails... I wonder
> >> if ACS is going to have the same problem.  It could have been my
> >> ulimits though...
> >
> >What size e-mail are we talking about?
> >
> >I've never run anything like it, and I'm curious.  (Might stop 
> >some of the
> >spam that gets sent to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  I do have some 
> >experience with
> >antivirus scanning, but the thing to watch out for there are compressed
> >files.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >James
> >
> >
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