Steve wrote:
Can you explain what the goal or reason is you want DSPAM to act positive to a
GTube string?
Basically, to check everything around dspam.
- To make sure spam gets quarantined correctly, and that the right user
can see it in their own quarantine box and process it.
- To check that any user can change their own settings and see the
effect on incoming spam (eg quarantine/tag/etc)
- To compliment the logs when trying to understand the path an email is
taking through dpsam (eg "tail -f" a given dspam/postfix/whatever log,
inject a "known spam", see what happens).
- To test that a domain is correctly configured to trap spam prior to
that domain's MX records being pointed to the server (weak example,
since this is pretty easy to check via mail headers too).
And so on. Pretty much the equivalent of EICAR: if your AV program
catches EICAR it doesn't prove that the AV program is functioning 100%
correctly (eg properly downloading updates etc[*]), but it does at least
make it easy to test that the system is able to handle a simple case.
[8]Long ago I thought that it would be useful if EICAR did release a new
test "virus" every month or so, so that testing with a current EICAR
binary would test that updates were being properly downloaded and
installed. But that's another story.
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