> Hello, > > I maintain a large webmail host (I bet you can figure out which one) for > free/paid accounts that sends out tens of thousands of emails a day. We're > not quite Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, but we're pretty big. We're looking to > scan > outbound mail using SpamAssassin and I'm hoping that someone here might > have > some suggestions or feedback on what the best way to configure this would > be. I've seen a handful of posts about this in the archive, so I know it's > come up before. > > My plan is to scan all outbound mail and drop all mails that match to a > log > file or a separate directory where they can be hand-reviewed by someone in > our customer service department. We also wouldn't want to actually modify > the mails on the way out-- so we wouldn't add the spamassassin mail > headers. > > Does anyone here have practical experience or advice, tweaks, etc. that > would help us to implement this sort of thing? (I know the volume will be > fairly high, but a nice farm of machines all running spamd should be able > to > load balance that part fairly well. It's the rules I'm worried about and > how > to make the log/discard work the way I want.) > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > Joe >
Try amavisd-new list. There you could integrate your SA checks in a very efficient way (policy banks, quarantining, releasing etc.) MySQL backend is also a good idea on high load severs. Regards, Leon Kolchinsky
