Heh! Great! Thanks Chris!
-Paul -----Original Message----- From: Hine,Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:36 AM To: Paul J. Fries; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Qmail-scanner-general]Questions about Frequently Asked Questions > Any chance you have updated this page to work with 1.20? ;) Just did it yesterday. You should find it attached (gzipped). Chris > > Now... I'd also like to send SPAM (spamassassin marks > anything with a > > score of 7 or higher as spam on my system) to the bitbucket. > > I'm well > > aware that qmail-scanner doesn't do this by default, but I > > wondered if I > > can modify it for my purposes to just throw the mail to > /dev/null if > > it's spam. Has anyone done this? > > I wrote a patch to qmail-scanner that you may find useful. It doesn't > send the spam to /dev/null, what it does is give you a second > threshold > for spam. The first threshold you set in SpamAssassin marks the email > as probably spam, the second threshold you set in qmail-scanner > (typically to a higher value) and any email's scoring above that > threshold get quarantined. > > usage instructions: > cd qmail-scanner-1.16 > patch -p1 <../quarantine-spam-qs1.16.patch > ./configure ...configure options... --sa-quarantine 10 (example) > > Chris Hine > (original email below) > --- > > I'm submitting this patch just in case someone else finds it useful. > > Basically what it does is extend the spam checking, so that > > if a message > > exceeds a certain configurable spam threshold, the message is > > quarantined as > > though it had a virus. > > > > There is a new configure option (sa-quarantine) which is set > > to whatever value > > above which you want messages to be quarantined. This is > > turned off by default. > > There are a couple of checks done. First, obviously this is > > only relevant if > > spamassassin is detected, also the value needs to be greater > > than the spam > > threshold from spamassassin. The idea is to use a value above > > which there are > > as few false positives as possible. > > > > The reason for writing this is that in the system we have > > here all messages > > marked as spam are put in a queue to be checked. Any false > > postives are manually > > sent on to the user, so anything that reduces the number of > > mails to be checked > > is very useful. In the couple of months I have been keeping > > track, we have had > > no false positives with a score over 10. > > > > We've been using it here for a while, and everything seems to > > be working OK. > > Let me know if I've broken anything, or if anyone thinks this > > is a bad idea. > > Chris Hine > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
