Read closely. Cigan is specifically looking to scan email sent via the local mailserver to or from domains which offer webmail service. Easy as pie. Just plain controlling what mail goes into SA based on sender and/or recipient and bypassing everything else.
He doesn't need to parse the web mail interface at all, just feed all mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] into SA.
It's pretty easy with something like MailScanner using rules on the "Use SpamAssassin" option..
In general it's pretty similar to this MailScanner FAQ item: http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/294.html
But instead of making Spam Actions a ruleset you make "Use SpamAssassin" a ruleset.
Procmail, Amavisd-new and mimedefang should be able to do this as well, but I'm not as familiar with those tools.
At 04:24 PM 11/12/2004, Bowie Bailey wrote:
From: Cigan Segun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I indeed praise you for your quick response to my question. To be > specific on my question, I want to be able to scan all messages or > mails sent to & fro using yahoo or hotmail or any of these known > web based addresses! > > What are the tools? Can spamassasin do that? How can I go about > configuring such tools? > > I do not have a mail server in my local network yet. We all use > web based mails.
Unfortunately, if you are using web based email, you are just using a web form to look at mail on the provider's server. There is no way to use SpamAssassin (or any other spam filter) in this case. The best you can do is to enable the spam filtering (if any) that is offered by the provider.
If the provider offers pop3 access to the email, you could set that up and use a pop3 proxy to download the email into Outlook Express or some other email program and have SpamAssassin scan it that way.
Bowie
