Robert Menschel <Robert <at> Menschel.net> writes:

> 
> Hello Scott,
> 
> Monday, May 24, 2004, 2:00:49 PM, you wrote:
> 
> SD> What I would like to see happen is for the messages that are tagged
> SD> as spam to be rejected back to the original sender similar to the way
> SD> postfix does when checking header and body content.
> 
> If you can figure out how to bounce these back to the original *sender*
> rather than the other hapless victim whose email address is in the From
> or Reply-To header, then more power to you.
> 
> If you can't figure that out, then DO NOT bounce spam. All you'll do is
> share your problem with that other victim, and the spammer will get twice
> his money's worth for that one spam.
> 
> SD> An acceptable alternative would be to have all mail that is tagged as
> SD> spam forwarded to another (maybe spamtrap for example) that holds
> SD> messages for a certain time period (perhaps 7 days) then deletes them.
> 
> I drop ALL spam from three domains into my spamtrap to feed Bayes and my
> corpus. My method probably wouldn't work for you, since my setup is (pick
> one: crazy, strange, weird), but yes, it should be feasible.
> 
> How is SA called, and can you put another program into the stream which
> will redirect spam to your spamtrap?
> 
thank you for your suggestions.  I was hoping to reject the message immediately 
while the connection from the sender is still open.  Not really bounce it 
back.  Anyway, I can see where that could be very difficult.  

As fas as dropping all spam into a spamtrap, this interests me very much.  I 
have SA 2.55 installed now and would be willing to try to upgrade if there is 
an advantage.   I am not sure how SA is called.  I found a file called 
spamassassin-spamc.rc that contains the following:

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc

Although I am not sure from where it gets called.  I do not seem to have a 
bayes.db anywhere (which also interests me)  Was there a bayes with 2.55 or was 
that later?  Is there any documentation that would lay out how to set up a 
MYSQL/Postfix/Spamassassin/bayes configuration.  (maybe I need something else 
to, I am not sure amavis for example)?

Scott Dortch



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