Re: [courier-users] SpamAssassin during SMTP dialog

Bill Taroli schrieb:

> Dirk Kulmsee wrote:
>
>> Bill Taroli schrieb:
>>
>>> Wiebke Doerper wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to use SpamAssassin during the SMTP dialog, to discard
>>>> everything with a high spam rating. I know some people have been
>>>> thinking of implementing this. Does someone have a working
>>>> courier(perl)filter to do it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I'm not sure it's what you had in mind... but I've been
>>> running Amavis as a global filter for a while now. In my case, I
>>> prefer to just have it do virus scanning... but if you wanted spam
>>> rejected similarly, it can easily accomplish that.
>>>
>>> If someone had a more direct integration of spamc/spamd as a filter,
>>> then it might be a lot more efficient...
>>
>>
>> We all would love to block spam at the earliest stage, but at least
>> here in Good ol' Germany you are half way in Jail if you do so.
>> Mail & letters are PERSONAL and you may not intrude. So we filter
>> SPAM and put it into a seperate folder which POP3 users don't get.
>> Every user is still able to log in via webmail and check his SPAM
>> folder if she/ he misses something.
>>
>> How do you (all) do it?
>>
>
> Oh, note that I said that actually only use the global filter for
> viruses... meaning that I only reject messages during submit IF they
> contain a virus. For spam, I instead call spamc/spamd from within
> Maildrop (globally), and put suspected SPAM into a folder that users
> can review normally. I also set expiration so that if they don't
> review them after a while, they are cleaned up. In my opinion, spam
> filters aren't quite exact enough to be sure that always what gets
> labeled is in fact spam -- or that what is spam for one person isn't
> perfectly acceptable for someone else. So I take a more cautious
> approach to that type of filtering.
>
> Bill Taroli
>
>
Marvellous! That's our way too. We use Dr.Web as a virus scanner and
Spamassassin & Affiliates (Razor & DCC) as SPAM Filter.
Any better ideas around ?

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Dirk Kulmsee





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