On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:43:34PM +0000, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
>
> As the server my mail client interacts with is not the one spam
> filtering, I would like to set up two accounts on the gateway box, ham
> and spam, so I can farward mail to those accounts, and have spamassassin
> learn what is ham and spam from them.
>
> How do I go about this?
>
> System Steup:
>
> Internet<-->gateway(linux,postfix, amavisd, clamav, f-prot,
> spamassassin)<-->internal server(winodows, exchange)
>
I have SA running on three servers that forms an email gateway. I
don't scan outgoing mail for spam. I have requested users to send
spam that got through to me by attaching the spam to the email.
Those messages are saved in the "spam" folder and a cron job unpacks
them into seperate messages in a maildir folder named "nuwespam". The
same program unpacks the attached "hams" from "xham" to "ham". When I
come across individual spams I save them in the "nuwespam" folder
directly.
The program unpacking the attachements will only handle attachments of
the RFC822 standard and ignore the rest. I have written it in Ocaml.
Unfortunately it was developed for this spesific situation and not
really suitable for distribution. If I have time and there is a need
for it, I might try and adapt it to be more generic and more useful
for other users as well.
The three servers then collect the "nuwespam" and "ham" folders on a
daily basis and feed them to sa-learn.
>From time to time I select ham message from emails I receive to save
to the "ham" folder because the feedback I get from users are normally
more spam than ham.
Regards
Johann
--
Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
"Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall." I Corinthians 10:12
