Re: spamassassin

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:37:11 -0400
> Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you caught this or not, but spamassassin in -unstable has 
> > been "fixed" to address the problem of osirusoft being offline.
> >
> > If you had configured your spamassassin with the '--local' option, you can 
> > remove it after you upgrade.
>
>
>     Never understood why people did --local in the first place.  They could
> always just set the Osirus rules to 0 in either the global conf if they have
> access to it or their local conf if they do not.  No need to throw out checks
> like DNS, Pyzor, Razor, MAPS and others just because of Osirus.

why?
braindead simple, validation process takes about 1 second.
really easy and simple to reinstate.

This is what I did and the difference was not significant in the amount of 
spam that I received.  It's nice to be able to fix three servers over a cup 
of coffee before you go to your real job.

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