Hi,
I am not sure if this is the place to do this but here goes. We have our email on an ISP and have been receiving 1000's of spam daily. There are 47 email accounts. One email account collects copies of all emails received. We setup spam assassin with another email account called "spam". It worked really well. The amount of spam received by clients dropped to nothing. We were able to view the spam in the spam account and retrieve the normal emails mistaken for spam and add them to the white-list. But, we had enabled the spam box and the spam assassin created copies of the spam and sent it to all the individual email addresses that the spam had been addressed to. The email account that received a copy of every email then received a copy of every spam email. We had 3 complete copies of the spam on the ISP site. Each copy consisted of between 5000 and 6000 spam emails. One complete copy was in the spam email account, individual copies in all the other email accounts, and, another complete copy in the collecting email account. Over 15000 spam emails in total. Within 2 days we had doubled our space used on the website until there was no more space available so that no more emails were passed through. The only way we could rectify the situation was to use the spam assassin facility to clear the spam boxes. We lost a great many proper emails because it was treating some sales inquiries as spam. That's fine we would have worked our way through that. We can't use spam assassin on its on because it asked for verification from the sender. Many purchase orders sent to us are computer generated (as is the spam) and you would never get a reply. The ISP has refused to help and told us to use a blackhole which would get rid of all the spam before we saw it and verified it as spam. What we need is to be able to collect the spam in a central location i.e. spam account and then after downloading or viewing it on the site, decide if it is spam or not. We obviously do not want to replicate the spam to other email accounts. Is there a way of doing this using spam assassin? Even if you reply by telling me to look up page such and such in the manual, that would be more helpful than what we are receiving from the ISP and in the meantime the spam keeps coming. Thanks Phil
