Spam and Viruses

We also have an e-mail virus scan and a SPAM filter on the mail server. The mail system will send a notice to the user if there is any e-mail virus. If user sets up a SPAM filter, mail system will send a SPAM notice to user. We are using SpamAssassin and AMaVis for a spam filter and an e-mail virus checker. To activate SpamAssassin, the following conditions must be true:

• Make sure that user has a updated .procmailrc.
• Make sure that user has $HOME/.forward with correct $HOME/.procmailrc.
• The user's home directory must NOT be g+w - sendmail will fail all procmail processing.

Unless the user changes their $HOME/.procmailrc, caught spam mail will be in $HOME/mail/spam folder. More information about the SpamAssassin, check http://spamassassin.org/. More information about the AMaVis, check http://amavis.org/.