Re: Ideas

[Loren Wilton]

Sooner or later (even by random blasting) some spammer is going to send mail to the thing, most probably with a forged From address.  Then you will send that as blowback (quite possibly appropriately tagged as spam) back to the sucker that owns the From address.  Not a real good thing to do.   I see no problem with your configuration tester in concept, save the above.  You can get around that by either having a very specifically-formatted mail that you send to the thing, and it will only respond to mails with that format.  Or you could have some external path where you tell it the hostname that should be sending it mail, and it can ignore all of the stuff that comes in from the zombies.   I suspect you can implement your loopback by having procmail call sendmail after running it through SA.  But I'm not enough of a guru on either of these programs to tell you exactly how to do it.           Loren   ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Swan To: SpamAssassin Users Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:31 PM Subject: RE: Ideas OMG, listen.   We setup regular mail server for companies (mostly exchange servers). Once we setup the mail server I want to send an e-mail from that new mail server to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I want that email run through all the Spamassasin tests then sent back to me with all the rules that were triggered etc in the body..   this domain and SPAM server would be used only for this purpose. So it could not be used as a relay or anything like that       Robert             Peace he would say instead of goodbye....peace my brother. From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:18 PM To: Robert Swan; SpamAssassin Users Subject: RE: Ideas   Wait.......what?   You want to setup a server that sends spam?   Why not just make an email address, stick it on the usenet and post to a few sites, have it get normal spam, and just test that one address?   Thanks, Chris Santerre SysAdmin and Spamfighter www.rulesemporium.com www.uribl.com   -----Original Message----- From: Robert Swan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:56 PM To: SpamAssassin Users Subject: RE: Ideas I am trying to setup a SPAM server to test e-mail servers, whether they are setup correctly or not..we do mail server setups on a pretty large scale and am looking to test the servers once they are built and installed.   Robert             Peace he would say instead of goodbye....peace my brother. From: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:53 PM To: SpamAssassin Users Subject: R: Ideas     Hi everyone, I am trying to setup a SPAM server to process incoming email and then send it back to the original sender.     You are going to do a spam server yourself: often the source e-mail is forged or is the somebody else's account...   Spam messages often ask the user to click on a link, not to reply.     ----------------------------------- Giampaolo Tomassoni - IT Consultant Piazza VIII Aprile 1948, 4 I-53044 Chiusi (SI) - Italy Ph: +39-0578-21100