On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:34:39AM +0000, Feargal Reilly wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for thoughts on ways that dbmail could interact with
> anti-spam software?
>
> I'm scanning users' mail with SpamAssassin which adds an 'X-Spam-Flag:
> Yes' header to spam prior to delivering to dbmail. I want our pop3
> users not to have to download the mail which has been marked as spam,
> but to retain it so they can review it in the web interface I'm
> writing. (Anybody else out there use neowebscript? Didn't think so...)
>
> My plan is to adjust dbmail-smtp to scan the header for the
> X-Spam-Flag, and if found, store the message in a 'Spam' mailbox. Then
> I'll alter dbmail-pop3d not to include mail from the Spam mailbox.
>
> I'll also adjust dbmail-maintenance so that it sends a summary of the
> spam mailbox.
I think you're going about this the wrong way. If you want to
quarantine spam (as opposed to rejecting it at SMTP, which I'd
recommend), have your MTA deliver deliver it to a different dbmail mail
box, e.g.
if spam
deliver to dbmail-smtp -m spam -u $user
else
deliver to dbmail-smtp -u $user
No modification to dbmail needed, just a minor configuration change to
your MTA.
xn
