Re: [courier-users] spam filtering with aliases

GAIA Host Collective wrote:

> Based on reading docs i think i understand that aliases (ones created
> by 'makealiases') can not be trained with the bayesian learning. For
> instance a mailbox is setup foobar@foodomain.com and an alias is setup
> called aliasname@foodomain.com that forwards to foobar@foodomain.com.
> It seems that email messages comes in for the alias and gets checked
> for spam according to spamassasin default settings then gets delivered
> into foobars folder...without using the filtering settings that were
> user-modified for foobar.
> whereas I would prefer to be able to have the alias utilize the
> spamassasin and bayesian settings for foobar.
> should I not be using aliases if I want effective spam filtering and
> just use mailboxes and configure the .courier file if I just want it
> to forward?

You forgot to include information about your setup like what auth module
your using (authldap, auth_pam, auth_mysql?) and how your calling
SpamAssassin (DEFAULTDELIVERY=, maildroprc, procmail, etc). We really
can't help until you give us the details.

Jay

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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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