SpamAssassin acting as a filter for /another/ mail server.

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:27 -0400, Julian Underwood wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> I am happily running spamassassin, clamav, MIMEDefang, sendmail, dovecot
> on FC2 as my personal mail server.  Works fantastically in nailing spam
> and viruses.
> 
> I want to set up the same box, except would like it to do the following:
> forward all legitimate mail to a box on the LAN, and forward all SPAM,
> viruses to the same box but to SPAM at domain.com.  I'm sure this is an
> easy thing to do, but I'm not sure /where/ to do it.  Do I configure
> this forwarding in sendmail or MIMEDefang?  So basically the box would
> act as a filter.
> 
> I've searched Google for some time and couldn't really find a good
> article on how to do this--does anyone have a link they could send me?
> 
> With so much spam out there, building an open source box like this is
> awesome in that there is no cost.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Julian

Look into spamass-milter and clamav-milter.  You can use them to relay
messages to your internal box.  Very easy to set up.

Thomas