FYI: Another method for growing my whitelist_from ...
I use Outlook Express...I have checked "automatically add reply addresses to address book". Then I periodically dump my addressbook as CSV and create a whitelist_from list from the users I have replied to. I do this manually so I can pick only certain users as some replies have been one-off's. Seems to work pretty well. jpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > I have had great success with a home-grown anti-spam system using > > - sendmail > - some RBLs > - scripts to search our sendmail logs for addresses we have sent to, since > they are presumably people we want to hear from > - scripts to search our LDAP accessible (Notes) database of customers, who > we also love to hear from. > > All this data is in sendmail's /etc/mail/access.db. > > These whitelisting processes were the key to eliminating false positives > being reported by users. The key is that if you send someone mail, you > probably want to hear back. Plus users often solve their own problems - if > someone sends us mail that gets bounced, then our user will often try to > send them mail as a test, which of course whitelists the original sender, > and eliminates the call to our help desk. > > I have added MimeDefang and SpamAssassin, and am getting even more spam > caught. Thank goodness, since we just lost Osirusoft! > > Is there any way to get a SpamAssassin rule to check /etc/mail/access.db? > For now, I am generating a /etc/mail/spamassassin/whitelist.cf, but that is > a 20,000 line file. With 600 users, this seem like a reasonable number > reasonable to me. > > (OT: Does anyone know if this whitelist.cf is being reread each message, or > only each time I run "service mimedefang reread".) > > Wrolf Courtney > Donovan Data Systems, Inc. > (212) 633-5470 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
