On 31 January 2002, Greg Blakely said:
> I actually DO have spamassassin working with procmail, quite nicely,
> thank you.
>
> But I have a situation where not all my received mail is for users homed
> on that machine. Nor, for that matter, are they able to reach it via
> NFS.
That's similar to my situation. I'm running an "external"
(outside-the-firewall) mail server that has two main goals in life:
1) manage a couple of mailing lists, and 2) receive mail for personal
addresses and forward it to one of our "internal" mail servers. I
recently bolted on SpamAssassin as an option for personal addresses.
Here's how it works for each incoming message (this is done with Exim):
* if the recipient address matches /etc/aliases, deliver according
to the instructions there (no SpamAssassin)
* if the recipient address matches /etc/exim/spamcheck_users, and the
message doesn't already have "X-Spam-Flag", then pipe it through
"spamc -f | exim $new_address", where $new_address is looked up
in /etc/spamcheck_users (same syntax as /etc/aliases)
* handle list addresses (list-owner, list-request, etc.)
* handle local .forward files
* handle regular local delivery
The neat thing is that I can have a line in /etc/exim/spamcheck_users
like this:
gward : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that *looks* like it ought to cause a mail loop (er, I forgot to
mention, our primary domain name is mems-exchange.org) -- but Exim is
smart enough to avoid that, and keeps marching down the list until it
finds ~gward/.forward, which is where I file spam into a separate
Maildir and real mail on to my internal address.
This works fine for now, but I'm the only person actually using SA
(ie. listed in /etc/exim/spamcheck_users). And it relies on Exim's
highly configurable and flexible nature. Dunno if postfix is quite as
configurable.
Hope this helps --
Greg
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Greg Ward - software developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
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