RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with Qmail

[AHYDLE]

Title: Message

To tell you the truth I like the idea of just stamping the message and allowing the user to filter it. But I know how my boss is and if I cannot get this way to work, he will want to look at other products. The plan is to redirect to a mail address that ends in a public folder allowing for easy retrieval of false positives (By MIS staff only).

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with Qmail

You could definitely do it. In fact you could do it in at least 10 different ways. The question is merely where you want to send the data and you'll have to get a little background in perl, and mail agents to pull it off. (I decided in my most recent config like this, to just stamp [SPAM] on the header and send it on to the recipient rather than filtering into another mailbox. Otherwise I'd tell you exactly how to do it.)

 

You could modify spamassassin to rewrite the recipient. You could wrap qmail-remote (opposite of wrapping qmail-local). You could even have qmail-scanner filter the message through some obscene procmail recipe. It's all up to your creativity.

 

However you might want to consider following the same path and just rewrite the header. This eliminates you getting blamed for false-positives and gives the user the ability to selectively filter at their end. (Writing procmail filters locally or using Rules Wizard under Outlook, or other filtering capabilities of whatever MUA they're using.) This way they can alert you to false positives (email bulk distributions, like say, the Daily Dilbert which gets identified as spam. Isn't that just wrong?) and then you can whitelist the appropriate addresses.

 

Anyway, food for thought.

 

Good luck,

-James

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:13 PM
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Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with Qmail

Do you think this would work if I was using qmail as a relay? It don't think it delivers locally or reads the .qmail files if there is the relay set up in smtproutes. But maybe it could give me some ideas. I just really need this to work, this is primarily an NT shop and the more I can prove that Linux can do a better job and is more customizable the better it gets here (Which if I knew Perl this would be easy).

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Neulinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with Qmail

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello
>
>         I am trying to set up spamassassin with qmail-scanner to
> redirect or archive all spam emails instead of just altering the
> email. So I was wondering if anyone has been able to do this or if
> anyone had any ideas on how to do this.

I haven't done it with qmail-scanner, but I did do it simply by wrapping
qmail-local (I just care about local delivery right now) and deliver to
one of two different mailspools depending on whether mail is detected as
spam or not. (And actually I also check to see if a special flag exists
in user dir indicating they want spam blocking support enabled,
otherwise I just pass through as is.)

I can provide more details if interested.

-- Nathan

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