On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Robert A. Pickering Jr. wrote: > Why can't you just use the built-in Greylist Opt-in / Opt-out? Then > all that user's mail will pass Greylisting and head into > SpamAssassin, where it'll be tagged and dumped accordingly.
Hello Robert, Thanks for the reply. The object is to avoid sending mail from suspect sources through spamassassin in order to keep its load down. > On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Michael Brennen wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am running postfix, with policyd as the front end, and spampd, a > > perl daemon, as the postfix content-filter shim to spamassassin. > > It works well. > > > > I have a client that would like to have all spam dumped into a > > folder rather than reject any mail at all. I've recommended against > > this for several reasons, as I think they will have too much junk to > > sort through and will lose mail. But, that is what they think they > > want. > > > > A problem these days is spamassassin overload; I simply cannot > > afford to send all incoming mail through spamassassin to determine > > if it is spam. There is too much of it, and it is getting worse; no > > surprises in that to anyone here I'm sure. > > > > I have in mind to add a per destination domain feature to policyd to > > allow mail from sources that would normally be rejected to be > > accepted and tagged with a unique X- header. The mail would then > > pass to spampd, which scans the headers before giving the mail to > > spamassassin. If the particular X- header is seen, the mail would > > be delivered as spam without going through spamassassin. > > > > As I see it this would keep the spamassassin load down and give them > > all the suspected mail. Any thoughts on this system, in particular > > any downsides I've missed? Is there anything available that already > > does this sort of thing? Thanks... > > > > -- Michael > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > policyd-users mailing list > > policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users -- -- Michael
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