>On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:54:55AM -0700, M. Brownsworth wrote:
>> Suppose a recipient wanted a message that had been marked as spam by
>> mistake, intercepted, and archived. Is there a way to deliver this
>> specific message to the recipient, preventing it from being
>> intercepted again? It would involve circumventing spamd's scanning
>> this message so that it can be redelivered to the user's local
>> mailbox.
>>
>> The following doesn't work:
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail $username < /var/log/spam/$file
>>
>> The message is intercepted again. Same deal with "-s
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail" -- no matter which one is used, spamd indentifies
>> it as spam again.
>>
>> BTW, procmail is my LDA. I assumed that using /usr/bin/mail to
>> redeliver locally would circumvent spamd's scrutiny, but that doesn't
>> seem to be the case.
>>
>> I'm hoping there's a way to sneak it past spamd's scrutiny, perhaps
>> using a delivery method that doesn't invoke spamd.
>
>I use mimedefang to run SA as part of a milter, so this isn't exactly
>what your situation is like, but mail(1) will pass arguments to
>sendmail. I just made a really simple .cf that doesn't use SA, and
>passed -C/etc/mail/no-spam-checks.cf as part of the mail command.
>
>Graham
Running sendmail with an alternate cf file is a good idea. But I
note the following in the sendmail man page:
-Cfile Use alternate configuration file. Sendmail refuses
to run as root if an alternate configuration file is
specified.
Would sendmail's not running as root present a problem?
.\\ichelle
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