Stephen, > I am using amavisd-new 2.5.4 (20080312), amavisd-milter 1.3.1 and sendmail > 8.14.2. I have configured amavisd to D_DISCARD spam and to quarantine spam > using spam_quarantine_method smtp:[127.0.0.1]:25. This superficially seems > to be working but it looks as if it may cause a loop whereby one spam > generates several entries in the target mailbox.
If you are sending quarantine mail back you your MTA on a port which is configured the same as for a regular incoming mail (i.e. it is invoking a milter), then you are creating a loop - mail to be quarantined is being fed again to amavisd by MTA via its milter. You either need to tell MTA not to apply milter to a mail received from amavisd, or tell amavisd to send quarantine mail to some other place, like a backend MTA if you have it. With Postfix this is quite easy, add another smtpd listening port and configure it without a milter. Don't know what would be the best approach with sendmail. Probably the least work is to let amavisd quarantine directly to a local directory or a mbox file without MTA intervention - or switch to Postfix :) Another possibility is not to quarantine, but let amavisd append address extension (e.g. '-spam' or '+spam') for spam messages, then configure MTA to reroute such recipient addresses to a dedicated mailbox. > Where is that doco? > When I try the "spambox@" syntax, I get a sendmail error "hostname > required". (Yes. I am trying to send spams to a 'special' mailbox > for later review.) http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-docs.html#quarantine Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
