Hi, all.
Just thought I would interject something about my work as published as part of the SA sources, being a fellow Postfix user (or should that be "junkie"? *pats a vein in his forearm* :) ). I would imagine that a lot of the "pipe" methods that are used with various other MTAs, such as Exim, should work with Postfix (with some, if any, modification), but I have not really tried. Instead, given my needs and what was written in the Postfix documentation about how to use its various content filtering hooks, I wrote the script that is now being bundled with SA which implements an SMTP proxy. I implemented SA this way because most of the staff members of the IRC network for which I serve as postmaster do not have accounts on-box, rendering final delivery-based filtering impractical. Since I was not entirley sure I trusted pipes in-line within the SMTP process, I decided to use SMTP injection/reinjection as the transport method since the result is the same regardless of operating system. I figured once I had things working and perhaps a little polished, I would share what I had come up with with the rest of the community. However, bear in mind that this is PROOF-OF-CONCEPT code, which I happen to use in a production environment. Just because I use it as such does not necessarily mean I think it is ready for widespread use. It simply serves as a basis from which to start to build an SMTP-type proxy. However, lately, due to a recent job change and move, I simply have not had the time to sit down and do some really serious work to get it to do AWL, per-user white- and black-lists and so on, features I really like about SA. Though for someone who REALLY wants to use Postfix (and being a Postfix fan, I have a hard time questioning that decision ;) ), the URL http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html recently posted does looks like a good place to start (though you will likely have to tailor this to suit your needs; this documentation covers Red Hat, while I use Debian at home and on my colo at work, while my workplace uses FreeBSD and Sendmail). If anyone has any better reinjection-based filtering which allows for per-user reconfiguration which does not rely on the /etc/passswd file, do feel free to sing out. :) Hope this helps put some persepective on what I have done and contributed. Thanks for your attention and understanding. --Ian. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
