Hello everyone, Is there any way in ASSP to separately collect mail sent by SASL-authenticated users?
This might actually be very useful. (The "okmail" folder seems NOT to be such folder - the config says it is mail OK'eyed by Bayesian filter, which may include quite a lot of spam.) The feature of automatic whitelisting external addresses that SASL-authenticated users send mail to was the main selling point of ASSP for me (that plus immediately letting foreign addresses know their mail has been bounced as opposed to blackholing it like SpamAssassin does). Those two features are IMHO even more important from practical point of view than sheer performance of Bayesian filter, but obviously having a better filter would not harm. This would include getting: a) better corpus b) better filter Goal b) can be addressed by installing/developing better filter, e.g. DSPAM. Goal a) is harder to acquire, because one needs a perfect source of spam (clean of false negatives) and a perfect source of ham (clean of false positives). A near-perfect source of spam can be acquired using spam traps. There's still some risk of a few clueless users contaminating spam :-) with false negatives, but that's rather rare. But where one finds a near-perfect source of ham? Manual sorting? That's actually worse than the best Bayesian filters, as I found to my nasty surprise when some users reported false positives that I overlooked during sorting several hundred mails by hand. And then it hit me - abstract from a bad apple in a barrel like a spammer among one's users, the mail sent by SASL-authenticated authenticated users is exactly such a near-perfect source of ham! The only issue is how to get it: not all MTAs make it possible, though it may be possible to get Exim to do it - I still don't know if it's possible, because ASSP obviously hands mail over 127.0.0.1 address and I don't know if it's just watching success/failure of authentication process or e.g. checking local user in some other way (that would result in MTA losing this piece of information from particular SMTP session). Thus, the easiest and the most universal option would be collecting such mail by ASSP - it has to know about authenticated users and it sorts and stores the mail anyway. Regards, Marcin KRol ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
