I’ve had a quick look at ASSP and it looks interesting but there is a small problem why it won’t work in our setup. It does not allow incoming SSL/TLS connections which you would really like to have because you don’t want your authentication details going over the internet as readable text. Sure you could use stunnel but that will interfere with all the other stuff as documented in the FAQ.

All the extra stuff ASSP does can be done in Postfix, I’m still working on that part, like greylisting to decrease the amount of spam send to Dspam.

I’m using these instructions but using ASSP instead. Since it is a filtering proxy, it greatly simplifies the postfix config and eliminates maildrop from the equation.

Since I finished training the bayesian filter (6 days), I haven’t had one single spam come through.

Have a look at http://syscp4mac.other-net.de/

If you look at the starting DSpam page you’ll see that the info you mention is there.

DSPam was starting up with an error indicating that it couldnt read through the /tmp/mysql.sock file.

I fixed it by modifying the startupparemters.plist file for (DSPam to have it depend on MYSQL basicall causing it to wait until MySql is loaded)

i’ll probably dump my solution and adopt yours

yesterday i thought about: why not cooking a nice sh script to do everything mentioned in your tutorial. when i have some spare time i’ll probably think about such an “a few clicks an go” installer. as a replacement for postfixadmin the syscp admin would be really cool as you could administrate virtual web hosting with it, too.

By the way, you can use babelfish or google to translate !

just scroll down to “Utilisation des “listes grises” which probably means greylisting they also describe other antispam techniques (and howto install on osx) there.

http://www.easymac.fr/technicalcookbook/mosxserver/mosxs-tiger/mosxserver-advanced/service-mail/ameliorer-les-performances-de-son-antispam