On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, dougp23 wrote:
I am tyring to do this on an email server. I am not sure if some of the
instructions you are shooting at me are for end users, or are for the
server!
My email server is Scalix, which appears to use Sendmail as its engine.
My SA is already tagging messages as Spam (fast learner), but like I said,
rather than deliver them, I want to just throw them out. No, I don't think
Sendmail supports maildir.
Suggestions to change MTA are rather throwing the baby out with the
bathwater, methinks. And this also has nothing to do with what format
your delivery agent uses.
SpamAssassin itself cannot discard mail or direct it to other folders.
So you'll need to use another piece of software to do this. There are
basically two and a half options:
1. Use an SA integrator, like MailScanner or Amavisd. I'm not a big
fan of this approach, since I think it adds a fair amount of
unnecessary overhead, makes troubleshooting more difficult (which
app is X a problem with?) and adds very little features.
2. Do filtering with your delivery agent. Someone mentioned
procmail, which is one solution; if Scalix supports Sieve filters,
that's another. (Both are very workable, very flexible
solutions.)
2.5. If Scalix supports plus-addressing at delivery time (e.g., with
LMTP), use SpamAssassin to rewrite the To: address. But this is
scary, so don't do it unless you like to live on the edge.
I can't tell from a quick browse through the Scalix wiki what delivery
agent it uses, but I'd look into that and see if you can use procmail
or Sieve with it.
Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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