Quoting Patrick O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

 | ----- Original Message -----
 | From: "John Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 | >
 | > Does anyone have other thoughts or ideas on how to make mailscanner
 | and
 | > courier work together?  The other solution would be to keep sendmail
 | > and mailscanner on our SMTP servers, and only run courier on our
 | > POP/IMAP servers.  But, I was hoping to use courier, both as SMTP and
 | > POP/IMAP on all of the machines.  (right now, we have 2 SMTP servers
 | > doing mailscanner and 1 POP server that only accepts messages from the
 | > SMTP servers ... but I'd rather have more distributed processing with
 | > SMTP and POP/IMAP on all 3 machines using courier's ability to work
 | > well with NFS as a means of distributing the load across all 3
 | > machines).
 | 
 | John,
 | 
 | Mailscanner sounds conceptually similar to inflex.  One MTA process
 | grabs the mail and delivers it to the scanning engine, and if all is
 | well a separate process is fired up to deliver the email onward.
 | 
 | Courier's Filters are in-line, and they make the entire email mime
 | bundle available to the filter script.
 | 
 | I use Courier's perlfilter.  And, since the filtering happens as part of
 | the MTA receiving function of Courier, if you return an error code from
 | your filter script, it will reject messages directly, not bounce them
 | later.
 | 
 | I'm sure some folks on this list have claimed to have integrated things
 | like spamassasin into the Courier Filter too.
 | 
 | My own filter script is based on the sample perlfilter script supplied
 | with courier.  I do some simple pattern matching in the headers, check
 | the file types based on both the name (*.exe for example) and the output
 | for the 'file' command on each mime attachment, and I also pass the mail
 | through and Anti-Virus engine (Sophos SAVI in my case).  I have never
 | had the chance to integrate spamassasin, but I'd like to do it one
 | day...
 | 
 | Courier can to the RBL lookups itself, so I don't bother trying to
 | re-invent the wheel in the filter script.
 | 
 | If you're interested, I will send a copy of my filter script to you.  I
 | make no great claims about it - it works for me and you are welcome to
 | it if you wish.
 | 
 | Patrick.
 | Perimeter Networks

Patrick,

I would certainly appreciate a copy.  I'm sure it would help me understand
courier filtering better.  I, too, would like to integrate spamassasin.  
Could someone share their spamassasin implementation with us?  I've tried 
a couple of times but without success.

Thanks,

ed


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