Re: [courier-users] spam filtering with aliases

Jay Lee wrote:

> 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


i'm using auth_mysql and maildrop. bayeslearning done with a nightly
cron job of email put into the Spam and NotSpam folders in each
mailbox. most users using POP3, and a few using solely webmail
(squirellmail) or IMAP.

thanks,

charles


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