Resources for “Beating Spam and Viruses with amavisd-new and Maia Mailguard”
December 1st, 2004 by Robert LeBlanc in
amavisd-new: www.ijs.si/software/amavisd
Maia Mailguard: www.renaissoft.com/maia
SpamAssassin: www.spamassassin.org
Clam Antivirus: www.clamav.net
Vipul's Razor: razor.sourceforge.net
Pyzor: pyzor.sourceforge.net
The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse: www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc
Sender Policy Framework: spf.pobox.com
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Great piece
On February 4th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
This is great stuff. We have done parts of this for some time. The only piece I did not know about was Maia-Mailguard. But now I can put everything together under a GUI-per-user configurable roof.
Just another example of why I continue to renew my subscription, thanks.
Works like a charm
On February 1st, 2005 Rick Johnson (not verified) says:
While the article didn't go into great depths on how the writer implemented this solution, I found that implementing this solution on Gentoo linux took me 4-5 unfocused days to accomplish. So far for the 4-5 days it's been active, it's blocked over 16,000 SPAM messages and viruses from our rather small company. Once we expand it's coverage to cover our clients as well, I expect this server to catch much more, yet still maintain decent performance.
Thanks LJ for pointing this solution out. I've got happy users now.
A howto???
On February 12th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:
I'm trying to do the solution in gentoo as well.
Rick Johnson how about a howto? Sounds like you made it work. You could help the rest of us stop that spam.
Or email what you did and I will make a howto for you.