yes, we use it that way all the time on rockclimbing.com. out of sheer laziness I have begun to implement a system for routing dbmail aliases selectively into phpbb forums; I was not thrilled with the idea of setting up mailman, ezmlm, etc.
but yes the aliases work great for mailing lists and if you want a php class to twiddle them, I can post one to the list. no warranty, of course; if it breaks you get to keep the pieces. I am not using the teergrube features in Postfix but IIRC it can be done. That's obviously a postfix issue, not a dbmail issue. all in all, with postfix + clamav + amavisd-new + SA and dbmail, our spam load is reduced. The critical part of that infrastructure has been piping a spammy address directly to SA's bayespam (again via a dbmail alias) and of course as the spammers have been sending random collections of words to poison the filter, it's getting worse. I may have to setup DSPAM and some other intermediate solutions until SPF or something like it takes hold. Spammers really are subhuman. If you know one, key his car, take a dump in his pool, and periodically order hundreds of pizzas from Domino's to be delivered to his house. Spammers are fecal matter. --t Quoth John Hansen: > 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. 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