> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Walsh [mailto:Paul.Walsh@uce.ac.uk]
> Sent: 25 March 2002 11:26
> To: Mail Managers (E-mail)
> Cc: Exim Users (E-mail)
> Subject: Spamassassin
>
>
> First of all, apologies for the cross-posting which will no
> doubt result in some folk receiving this twice.
>
> Having spent the last couple of months "tinkering" with using
> Spamassassin to tag unsolicited mail I've shown senior
> management what's possible. As a result I've been asked to
> get a feeling for how widely SA and other anti-spam software
> is used within the Academic community. Could I therefore ask
> you to spare a couple of moments to answer the following
> questions. I shall send a summary of responses to the list
> for future reference:
>
>
> 1. Which MTA software do you use (exim, sendmail etc)?
** sendmail
> 2. Have you, or are you in the process of, implemented any
> anti-spam
> measures?
** Yes
>
> 2a What software do you use?
** MailScanner with SpamAssassin.
>
> 2b What policy do you implement (i.e. bounce spam or just
> flag it for
> recipient to deal with)?
** Flag it for the recipient to deal wiyh.
> For information we're running the following:
> Exim 3.35
> SpamAssassin 2.1
> Perl 5.6.1
> all on Sun Solaris 2.6 and 7
>
Members of the uk-mail-managers list who run Sendmail or Exim on their
Mail Relays are urged to look at
http://www.mailscanner.info
which describes MailScanner, written by Julian Field of Southampton
University with JISC funding.
It can invoke SpamAssassin and a whole host of commercial Anti-Virus
packages for scanning e-mail.
Quentin
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