> Now... I'd also like to send SPAM (spamassassin marks anything with a > score of 7 or higher as spam on my system) to the bitbucket. > I'm well > aware that qmail-scanner doesn't do this by default, but I > wondered if I > can modify it for my purposes to just throw the mail to /dev/null if > it's spam. Has anyone done this?
I wrote a patch to qmail-scanner that you may find useful. It doesn't send the spam to /dev/null, what it does is give you a second threshold for spam. The first threshold you set in SpamAssassin marks the email as probably spam, the second threshold you set in qmail-scanner (typically to a higher value) and any email's scoring above that threshold get quarantined. usage instructions: cd qmail-scanner-1.16 patch -p1 <../quarantine-spam-qs1.16.patch ./configure ...configure options... --sa-quarantine 10 (example) Chris Hine (original email below) --- > I'm submitting this patch just in case someone else finds it useful. > Basically what it does is extend the spam checking, so that > if a message > exceeds a certain configurable spam threshold, the message is > quarantined as > though it had a virus. > > There is a new configure option (sa-quarantine) which is set > to whatever value > above which you want messages to be quarantined. This is > turned off by default. > There are a couple of checks done. First, obviously this is > only relevant if > spamassassin is detected, also the value needs to be greater > than the spam > threshold from spamassassin. The idea is to use a value above > which there are > as few false positives as possible. > > The reason for writing this is that in the system we have > here all messages > marked as spam are put in a queue to be checked. Any false > postives are manually > sent on to the user, so anything that reduces the number of > mails to be checked > is very useful. In the couple of months I have been keeping > track, we have had > no false positives with a score over 10. > > We've been using it here for a while, and everything seems to > be working OK. > Let me know if I've broken anything, or if anyone thinks this > is a bad idea. > Chris Hine
quarantine-spam-qs1.16.patch
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