using libmilter, milter-spamc and spamassasin

Hannes Mayer fedora at ancientcoins.biz
Sat May 29 19:03:45 UTC 2004


Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 11:49, John Walsh wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>My intension is to get spamassasin to process ALL the emails that pass 
>>through my sendmail,
>>even those forwarded on to external email addresses through 
>>/etc/mail/virtusertable...
> 
> 
> I setup a sendmail server for a business using spamassassin via
> procmail.  I noted you did not want to use procmail for this.  But you
> may want to reconsider it.  They way I set it up sendmail calls procmail
> for all messages.  In procmail you call spamc to process the messages. 
> At this point you can grab all spam and put it in a separate file or
> pass it on to end users to let them process it.  In my case I dump the

John, we use the same setup with good success on one RHEL server.

> spam to a dummy spamuser.  This is reviewed periodically for any false
> positives (no real false positives so far).  It also becomes a pool of
> messages to train the baysian databse with. 

Scot, so the bayesian filter doesn't learn automatically ?
I mean, one needs to train it once again with the filtered spam ?
Any details you can share about this are greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Hannes.






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