Re: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:49 PM -0700 Jill U'Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The institution where I work is currently running SpamAssassin on a Red Hat > 7.2 box. I'm using MIMEDefang (a milter) on my 7.2 systems. There's a "recipe" on the MD website explaining how to discard high-scori

RE: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-05 Thread Bill Polhemus
Yes, and the answer is... PROCMAIL! (I sound like a, er, "scratched CD.") Since SpamAssassin only tags the email, something else has to make the decisions on what should be done with it afterward. PROCMAIL can examine the headers, look at the X-Spam-Score field, do a test against it, and redirec

RE: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Santerre
I bet your having fun! Inheriting another person's network can be a nightmare. I've done so many tweaks, patches, and hacks even I don't know what I've done :-) Yes this is possible. As you have heard, not recommended. However you could send anything greater then 8 to a spamtrap for manual deletio

Re: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-02 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:49:18PM -0700, Jill U'Ren wrote: > Would it be possible to immediately "flush" anything that > scores 8.0 (and higher) while keeping email that scores > 5.0 - 7.99 tagged as possible spam and still delivered to > the recipient? Depends on how exactly your SpamAssassin i

RE: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-02 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Jill, I agree with Scott - it is possible but you should really think this through. If there is a problem letting the end-user make the decision, it would be better to forward to an administrative account for review. Having worked for the Department of Education for over three years, I can sa

Re: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-02 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Jill U'Ren wrote: Would it be possible to immediately "flush" anything that scores 8.0 (and higher) It is possible, but are you sure that you *want* to do that? What if a legitimate message is discarded? IMHO, it's best to simply tag the messages and let the end-user make these decisions. ---