Joe Pranevich wrote:
Hello,
I maintain a large webmail host (I bet you can figure out which one) for
free/paid accounts that sends out tens of thousands of emails a day. We're
not quite Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, but we're pretty big. We're looking to scan
outbound mail using SpamAssassin and I'm hoping that someone here might have
some suggestions or feedback on what the best way to configure this would
be. I've seen a handful of posts about this in the archive, so I know it's
come up before.
My plan is to scan all outbound mail and drop all mails that match to a log
file or a separate directory where they can be hand-reviewed by someone in
our customer service department. We also wouldn't want to actually modify
the mails on the way out-- so we wouldn't add the spamassassin mail headers.
Does anyone here have practical experience or advice, tweaks, etc. that
would help us to implement this sort of thing? (I know the volume will be
fairly high, but a nice farm of machines all running spamd should be able to
load balance that part fairly well. It's the rules I'm worried about and how
to make the log/discard work the way I want.)
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Joe
For one more option, see http://mailscanner.info It's perl, works great
with sendmail, and has a wide variety of options for queuing,
quarantining, and classifying mail using SA and going beyond what SA
does by itself. It's not a milter. It has a queue, check, then forward
approach that nicely levels out the load on SA. There's also some nice
addon reporting available in MailWatch (sourceforge).
--
Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net
