> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:52 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: spamassassin on a mail relay
>
>
> Michael Grant wrote:
> > Do any of you out there run spamassassin on a mail relay or pop/imap
> > server to add the X-Spam headers to all mail that passes
> through your
> > gateway?
> >
> > If you do, how do you let individual users (who don't have
> accounts on
> > your relay) tweak their user_prefs file to whitelist things that are
> > not spam or otherwise tweek the rules?
> >
> > Do any of you who use spamassassin at the server level (as
> opposed to
> > the user level) use it to reject spam (versus just marking it up)?
> >
> > I had this idea that something could add a url to the bottom of the
> > message that would let the user click on it and white/black list the
> > user back on the server. Maybe something like this exists already?
> >
> > I must say that in my own experience, I could not blindly
> reject mail
> > with Spamassassin because it has too many false positives with my
> > mail.
> >
> > Michael Grant
>
> Hi,
>
> We use mysql based User Preferences so users can use their
> own black and
> white lists as well as set the markup and required hits.
>
> We reject spam (55x, not a bounce) when the score is 10 or above and
> mark everything else that gets 5 or more.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick
I have a weird setup :)
AFAIK, I'm the only nut who does this. All my users are actually aliases to procmail scripts. No user accounts on the mail gateway system. If they want to opt out, (which no person ever has.), I can do it in their script.
This gives me amazing flexibility in the system. Copying specific spam/ham to archives for research as an example. Anything between score 5-6.99 gets marked and delivered. Anything 7 or above gets sent to a global spam account that I check every morning. About 85% are instantly deleted because of URIBL/SURBL combination hits. The rest are just analized by me for more patterns for SARE, and URIs for URIBL.
About 95% of all the spam into my system score over 7 points. So my users see maybe 1-2 marked messages. I love the setup.
--Chris
