On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 20:05 +0530, Suhag P Desai wrote: > 1. Is SA for external to internal mail only ??? or it can be used > to scan internal to external and internal to internal mail also ? > That depends on how you feed it:
- at present I'm only scanning incoming by using this chain: ISP ---pop3--->getmail | SA | sendmail ---smtp---> Postfix - If you run SA as a Postfix service I think it scans all mail submitted to Postfix via SMTP on port 25 > 2. How SA consider mail as a SPAM based on the score ? > That's external. SA scores the mail so that something downstream of it can use the score, such as procmail or a filter in the recipients MUA If you use amavis-new as an SA front end, it can use the score to deliver/quarantine/delete etc the message > 3. How SA used /usr/share/spamassissin/*.cf file ? > Base rules, replaced with a new set in /var/lib/spamassassin/ the first time you run sa_update. Your configuration and, optionally, site-specific rules are usually in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf or you can add extra site-specific rules as /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf Martin
