[ale] the _REAL_REASON_ for the admin change
Jim Popovitch
yahoo at jimpop.com
Wed Feb 20 16:09:58 EST 2008
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Randy Ramsdell
<rramsdell at livedatagroup.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what is meant by something being a third level of
> protection because each is equally important. It also appears that
> viruses anr't an issue here since I never get hits for viruses off this
> list.
> On thing to note is that Spamassassin will check these lists and it will
> check ALL mail relays within a message header whereas Sendmail is
> probably only checking the connected ip.
You DON"T want spamassassin checking files that haven't been first
cleared by a virus scanner. SA does too much interaction, via perl,
with emails that it's not worth the risk. Always use this order:
1) DNSBL checks
2) Virus checks
3) Spam checks
4) blacklists
5) whitelists
6) valid recipient checks
-Jim P.
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