About aliases, Is it possible for dbmail to have one alias expand to several destinations, eg. mailinglists?
Sort of like the aliases entry: list: user1,user2,user3,..... .... John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roel Rozendaal - IC&S Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 4:31 AM To: dbmail@dbmail.org Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Does DBmail support spam-, virus-filter, SPF, tar pitting and sorting into folders? Hi Rene, Regarding spamfilters: you can use spamassassin very easily. Every known email address to the dbmail system is stored in the 'aliases' table which contains (alias, deliver_to) entries. As you might expect, the 'alias' field represents a known email address, 'deliver_to' specifies what to do with the mail for this address. It can contain one of the following: (1) a number. This is a reference to the user_idnr of the user who uses this alias; the mail will be delivered to his/her INBOX. (2) an emailaddress. This can be used for forwarding mail; this emailaddress may be an external forward or a local forward (i.e. the deliver_to field contains an email address which is an alias-entry in the aliases table) (3) a pipe sign ('|') followed by a shell-command. A pipe will be opened to the specified command and all mail data will be piped into the stream. (4) an exclamation mark ('!') followed by a shell-command. Works just as the pipe-sign but prepends the maildata with an mbox-style header. You can use option #3 to implement spamassassin easily: just pipe the maildata to spamassassin and you're off! On virusfilters: i've heard a few stories on this list from dbmail-systems using amavisd. It isn't hard to implement but it's a bit of a off-dbmail topic since amavisd is configured in your mta. As you are currently using postfix i would suggest to keep using it, there's lots of info on the net about integrating amavisd and postfix. About SPF: i'm a bit of a newbie to SPF, but AFAICT by http://spf.pobox.com/intro.html , you'll be able to use it as soon as it is in your mta. Although the usefullness of tar-pitting is subject to quite some discussion ;-) this as well takes place in the mta. You're limited by the choice of your mta. Filtering mail directly into folders is currently under development; they are scheduled for version 2.1. The timeline for 2.1 development will be laid out after the release of 2.0 (very shortly now :-) but we're talking about 2-3 months max here. regards roel Op 4-feb-04 om 20:17 heeft Rene Bartsch het volgende geschreven: > Hi, > > first I'm new to list, so "Hello" to all ;-) > > I'm considering to switch from Postfix/CourierIMAP/Procmail to DBmail > as it > would decrease maintenance work (no system users, home directories, > ... for > email users). > > I just want to run it with a PHP-frontend to administrate and > PHP-webmail. > > Now, my questions are about handling mails: > > 1.) is there support/an interface for spam filters (SpamAssassin > preferred)? > 2.) is there support/an interface for virus filters (F-Prot preferred)? > 3.) is there support/an interface for SPF validation? > 4.) is there support/an interface for tar pitting? > > Is it possible to filter mails into folders by some kind of regular > expressions (I currently do this with procmail and IMAP)? > > Regards > Rene > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > _________________________ R.A. Rozendaal IC&S T: +31 30 63 55 736 F: +31 30 63 55 731 www.ic-s.nl _______________________________________________ Dbmail mailing list Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
