[CentOS] Advice, Please.
Phil Savoie
psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Mon Feb 19 16:06:32 UTC 2007
On Saturday 17 February 2007 11:31, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Phil Savoie wrote:
> > I have a home setup where I am using Centos 4.4 as a sort of mail
> > server. This is what I have done.
> >
> > I have it configured to pop mail locally. I have fetchmail
> > configured to dl from my provider my families mail through a cron
> > job and .fetchmailrc in their home directories. They then pop the
> > server to retrieve their mail. They send their mail directly through
> > the provider.
> >
> > I have been relying on spamassasin on their local boxes to learn and
> > filter out the spam but find it is only doing about half of the job
> > even after months of training.
> >
> > I guess my question is this. Is there a way to do further spam
> > filtering on the mail server incorporating my method of doing mail
> > or am I not just doing this right?
>
> My experience is that the version of spamassassin that ships with
> CentOS 4 is simply out of date. What works best for me using the Dag
> Wieers/RPMforge version (currently at 3.1.7).
>
> Semi-tricky is that fact that it requires some other packages as well.
> Here's my /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo (which also includes some
> packages unlikely to be of interest to you, like cfengine and
> conserver):
>
> ----- %< -----
> # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - dag
> # URL: http://rpmforge.net/
> [rpmforge]
> name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
> mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge
> enabled = 1
> gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
> gpgcheck = 1
> includepkgs = cfengine clamav clamav-db clamav-milter clamd conserver
> perl-Archive-Tar perl-IO-Zlib rpmforge-release spamass-milter
> spamassassin subversion
> ----- %< -----
>
> Make sure the includepkgs list is all on one line. Then "yum upgrade
> spamassassin" should get you the new packages.
>
> After installing the new spamassassin,
>
> 1. Run sa-update to grab the latest stock ruleset from
> updates.spamassassin.org, though I suggest you read the
> sa-update(1) man page first to understand what you're doing.
>
> 2. For each SpamAssassin user, at the very least, run (as that user)
> 'sa-learn --import' to update their Bayes databases. It's probably
> most helpful to read the MIGRATION section of the sa-learn(1) man
> page. You'll most likely want to disable the fetchmail runs during
> the migration.
Thank you Paul! Appreciate this.
Phil
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