spam: was Re: pine

Dawes, Stephen Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca
Wed Feb 16 17:48:18 EST 2005


I think a 486 is a little to lite for MailScanner, but that said, I have
successfully ran it on a P133 for quite some time without noticing any
big delays.



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
 
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes
> Sent: 2005 February 16 3:03 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: spam: was Re: pine
> 
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> How big a machine must you have to run MailScanner on? I 
> unfortunately use a '486 for my inside local area mail host.  
> It works fine for just tossing and smart hosting mail but 
> when I ran Spam Assassin on it, it went down on its knees and 
> took over a minute to process one e-mail!
> It owuld have never kept up at that rate:).
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:00:14AM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I use MailScanner to filter out all spam virus and other 
> dangerous mail.
> > MailScanner, and the m of mail and the s of scanner are in 
> uppercase, 
> > is quite easy to install. It interfaces with a number of AV and 
> > anti-spam programs.
> > Check it out at:
> > MailScanner.info
> > 
> > Other things that I like about MailScanner:
> > -> that there is a good group on the mail list and they are vary 
> > -> helpful
> > in helping with problems.
> > -> it is easy to configure additional personal rules and 
> other filters.
> > -> it keeps the spam filters and AV dat files up-to-date 
> automatically.
> > -> you can have all message in HTML format automatically converted 
> > -> into
> > text. 
> > 'and these are but a few of the many features of MailScanner.
> > 
> > NOW, before you go-off and say that there are no virus on Linux, it 
> > doesn't matter. Because regardless of whether there are viruses on 
> > Linux or not, it is the message transporting the virus that is 
> > intercepted and immediately removed preventing it from being 
> > accidentally or otherwise spread to others that can be 
> affected by virus.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Stephen Dawes  <B.A., B.Sc.>
> > Steve Dawes
> > Phone: (403) 268-5527
> > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
> >  
> >  
> > 
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