[juneau-lug] Re: SPAM filtering...
- From: Myron Davis <myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:51:48 -0800
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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