I am running SpamAssassin from Courier Maildrop, which is functionally much the same as Procmail, but (I understand) cleaner as a language and more powerful. Then a Maildrop rule finds the messages which are deemed to be spam and deals with them.
The remainder are sent to Anomy Sanitizer, which does a variety of things, and "drops" the files which are deemed to be executables, which are, in my experience, only found in virus emails. Then Maildrop looks for messages with a "dropped" file and deals with them. The remaining messages go to my Inbox. (In fact, both the spam and virus messages also go to my Inbox, but with a distinctive subject header, such as "~~~[SPAM]", but they are tagged for deletion at the next IMAP expunge command. This way, I see everything which comes in, but do not have to manually select and deal with the 30 or so spams and viruses which arrive every day.) As expected, Spam Assassin (without any external blacklists, signature comparisons etc.) with the threshold of 5 has a few false positives and a few false negatives - but I am very happy with it indeed! Anomy Sanitizer has had no false positives or negatives so far in respect of "dropping" files. I am very happy with it. Both these and the subsequent filtering rules are specified in Maildrop's ".mailfilter" filtering file. Maildrop is the local delivery agent, in this case for Postfix. So there is no extra configuration of the MTA beyond what I already had with Maildrop being the local delivery agent. All this is documented at: http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/Postfix-SA-Anomy-Maildrop/ Thanks for SpamAssassin!!!!!!! - Robin // Robin Whittle http://www.firstpr.com.au // Melbourne, Australia http://fondlyandfirmly.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
