On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:51:36 -0500, Gary Buckmaster wrote > considered setting up spam@ and notspam@ accounts on the gateway > itself, and having local users send appropriate samples to these > accounts, then running sa-learn against these. Does this approach > make a great deal of sense? Has anyone set up something like this?
I haven't done it (yet) with SpamAssassin, but this is exactly how I set up the company-wide Bogofilter where I work. It's worked very, very well. I simply created email aliases that pipe to the learning commands. Obviously this works best if the users' email clients can bounce mail with full headers, but I found even ordinary forwarding works -- as long as you forward enough messages to the notspam address to convince it that "FW:" in the subject line isn't a good spam token! You may want to restrict outside addresses from sending to those accounts...well, at least the notspam one. It's occurred to me, after getting a bunch of spam to web-scraped email addresses, that if I published the spam@ address in hidden text on our website the filter might become self-training. ;)
