* Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>: > Would anyone happen to have an example guide showing the proper > master.cf and main.cf parameters for setting up daemonized spamassassin > to run super selectively via FILTER? > > I've reached the point that I'm killing about 98% of my spam load but > I'm tired of the few phish/419 that make it into my inbox due to "zero > day" attacks from compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Squirrelmail, Horde, > Exchange accounts and the like. I plan on configuring SA to be very > lean, focusing on body content, bayes, and uribl hits. > > All the config examples I find on the Spamassassin site are geared > toward a "heavy" setup running ALL mail through SA. I absolutely will > not do this. I need very selective use of SA, one reason being that I > have spamtrap mailboxen. Running SA "globally" would probably cause > problems with this. It should only fire on one or two emails a day, > which are the ones getting through, and these are to a single recipient > address, mine. I'm using Dovecot LDA, not procmail etc, so I can't just > run the spamassassin script (which would actually be much easier to > implement for what I want to do).
Check out spampd <http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/mta/spampd.htm>: "(...) It uses an excellent program called SpamAssassin (SA) to do the actual message scanning. spampd acts as a transparent SMTP/LMTP proxy between two mail servers, and during the transaction it passes the mail through SA. (...). p...@rick -- All technical questions asked privately will be automatically answered on the list and archived for public access unless privacy is explicitely required and justified. saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>