Max Paperno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your suggestions are valid but they should really be directed to your > mail admin. All the stuff you mention is going to be fairly specific > to your mail provider's setup. There are many tools already > available for them to make your life easier, although often even the > available tools need to be customized based on specific needs. The > time of SA developers is better spent focusing on the specific task > that SA is meant to perform (analyze a mail message for spam > content). Even the actual program known as spamassassin still needs > to be configured to work with individual mail transfer applications, > usually requiring another program to actually invoke it (procmail, > spamc/spamd, amavis, etc etc.). You have to actually "wire" it into > your existing (or new) setup.
This is true. *However*, it would seem that at least 1 working method of doing something like this should be done - as an example to those mail admins who are installing SA (and procmail, and amavis, etc) >From my point of view, having a procmail receipe written that would allow a user to send themself email, with a particular keyword (or keywords) in the subject line would be a good start (and possibily all that is needed). For example, if I were to email myself a message where the subject line was "SA_WHITELIST_ADD address-to-add", it would seem not too difficult to get procmail to add that to my personal whitelist. Same with sending a message to myself with a subject line of "SA-LEARN SPAM", where the corpus of spam messages were contained in an attachment to the message. While this wouldn't help every conceivable situation, it would help some and lead others giving them a starting point for helping their users. And helping the end users is really ALL of our jobs (spoken like the 10-year helpdesk veteran I am). -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
