SA Webmail Portal
Anyone developed a webmailportal for Spamassassin? What I mean by this is.. Some sort of webmail which only has a spam folder so people can see their spam.. anything else passes on through.. I'm running SA in two manners.. One of which is going directly to my pop server and tags all the spam.. and my pop server files stuff away accordingly.. but, I'm also providing spam tagging services for other customers.. whom are now requesting that they not get the spam, but have a webmailportal page similar to Postini's (also a nice place to adjust their scores) Thanks, Billy
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Billy Huddleston wrote: Anyone developed a webmail portal for Spamassassin? What I mean by this is.. Some sort of webmail which only has a spam folder so people can see their spam.. anything else passes on through.. I'm running SA in two manners.. One of which is going directly to my pop server and tags all the spam.. and my pop server files stuff away accordingly.. but, I'm also providing spam tagging services for other customers.. whom are now requesting that they not get the spam, but have a webmail portal page similar to Postini's (also a nice place to adjust their scores) Sure. Use the ability to tag to a plussed address, then virtusertable the plussed address to a local cyrus server with Squirrelmail, and route the normal mail onward. This should only take about an hour to set up. -- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: Billy Huddleston wrote: Anyone developed a webmail portal for Spamassassin? Sure. Use the ability to tag to a plussed address, then virtusertable the plussed address to a local cyrus server with Squirrelmail, and route the normal mail onward. This should only take about an hour to set up. We do something similar -- we set some headers with SA, and then use Sieve filters to put them into folders, delete entirely, etc. When we create a new account users get some default filters, which they can then manage using the Ingo component of Horde. This works for us, since we offer a full webmail/groupware suite as well, but Jo's suggestion is more lightweight and would probably be better if you're just looking for a spam quarantine interface. Remember, SA doesn't filter, file, deliver, or anything else. You can use it to munge the message, but anything else is up to other software -- in this case, probably your IMAP server. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Chris St. Pierre wrote: Remember, SA doesn't filter, file, deliver, or anything else. You can use it to munge the message, but anything else is up to other software -- in this case, probably your IMAP server. Not entirely true. These options change the delivery address. If you use these and also virtusertable, you could deliver tagged mail to a different location. ## ADDING ADDRESS EXTENSIONS TO RECIPIENTS - 'plus addressing' # $recipient_delimiter = undef; # $replace_existing_extension = 1; # $addr_extension_virus = undef; # $addr_extension_banned = undef; # $addr_extension_spam = undef; # $addr_extension_bad_header = undef; # @addr_extension_virus_maps = (\$addr_extension_virus); # @addr_extension_banned_maps = (\$addr_extension_banned); # @addr_extension_spam_maps = (\$addr_extension_spam); # @addr_extension_bad_header_maps = (\$addr_extension_bad_header); -- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
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Okay, so next question.. might be totally out of topic for SA.. How can I make the front-end mail server know if a email exists on the backend server.. Example.. I use qmail on my front-end.. I don't like receiving tons of invalid emails just to turn around and attempt to deliver bounces that could possibly be going to honeypots or servers that don't take mail etc.. I solved this on my own domain by using a smtp vrfy script that checks against my backend mail server.. but since the other domains don't have mailboxes on my back-end server and is only setup to relay their mail, it blindly accepts EVERYTHING for them.. any suggestions? Thanks, Billy - Original Message - From: Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris St. Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Billy Huddleston [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:31 PM Subject: Re: SA Webmail Portal Chris St. Pierre wrote: Remember, SA doesn't filter, file, deliver, or anything else. You can use it to munge the message, but anything else is up to other software -- in this case, probably your IMAP server. Not entirely true. These options change the delivery address. If you use these and also virtusertable, you could deliver tagged mail to a different location. ## ADDING ADDRESS EXTENSIONS TO RECIPIENTS - 'plus addressing' # $recipient_delimiter = undef; # $replace_existing_extension = 1; # $addr_extension_virus = undef; # $addr_extension_banned = undef; # $addr_extension_spam = undef; # $addr_extension_bad_header = undef; # @addr_extension_virus_maps = (\$addr_extension_virus); # @addr_extension_banned_maps = (\$addr_extension_banned); # @addr_extension_spam_maps = (\$addr_extension_spam); # @addr_extension_bad_header_maps = (\$addr_extension_bad_header); -- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Billy Huddleston wrote: Okay, so next question.. might be totally out of topic for SA.. How can I make the front-end mail server know if a email exists on the backend server.. Example.. I use qmail on my front-end.. I don't like receiving tons of invalid emails just to turn around and attempt to deliver bounces that could possibly be going to honeypots or servers that don't take mail etc.. I solved this on my own domain by using a smtp vrfy script that checks against my backend mail server.. but since the other domains don't have mailboxes on my back-end server and is only setup to relay their mail, it blindly accepts EVERYTHING for them.. any suggestions? Thanks, Billy Are you asking how to prevent backscatter? http://www.google.com/search?hs=NQZhl=enlr=c2coff=1client=operarls=enq=spam+backscatterbtnG=Search If so, you'll need to look at your MTA. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Billy Huddleston wrote: Anyone developed a webmail portal for Spamassassin? What I mean by this is.. Some sort of webmail which only has a spam folder so people can see their spam.. anything else passes on through.. I'm running SA in two manners.. One of which is going directly to my pop server and tags all the spam.. and my pop server files stuff away accordingly.. but, I'm also providing spam tagging services for other customers.. whom are now requesting that they not get the spam, but have a webmail portal page similar to Postini's (also a nice place to adjust their scores) Thanks, Billy If I understand your question then yes. We currently Virus scan and spam filter on our mail gateways and then forward to our toasters inside. We also do mail filtering for other clients Exchange servers outside our network. We setup MailScanner to hold all tagged spam within the quarantine and we send a daily quarantine report to each user every day. The user can then log into their quarantine and release spam messages which will then be delivered normally. We use a heavily modified version of MailWatch for MailScanner to do this. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.
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Okay, so next question.. might be totally out of topic for SA.. How can I make the front-end mail server know if a email exists on the backend server.. Example.. I use qmail on my front-end.. I don't like receiving tons of invalid emails just to turn around and attempt to deliver bounces that could possibly be going to honeypots or servers that don't take mail etc.. I solved this on my own domain by using a smtp vrfy script that checks against my backend mail server.. but since the other domains don't have mailboxes on my back-end server and is only setup to relay their mail, it blindly accepts EVERYTHING for them.. any suggestions? Thanks, Billy Hi, explain to your customers that giving you a list of mail accounts is beneficial to them Wolfgang Hamann
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Hi, explain to your customers that giving you a list of mail accounts is beneficial to them Wolfgang Hamann I see your point yet... What specific kind of customers? If if is part of your policy and procedure from start to finish it shouldnt be a big deal... Meaning, if they are renting your hosting or relay servers... If they have their own transport and transit from you and their own hardware, then they should be doing their own thing right? - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
