On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Tom Scrape wrote: > > 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... > > Amavisd has a "spam lovers" and "virus lovers" feature. I don't know if it > supports redirecting to a different folder, but (as I understand it) it > should allow this "wise" user's spam flood to bypass SA, at least.
Hello Tom, I am not running amavisd, partly because I think its overhead is much higher than running spampd directly as a content filter. I suppose I could move to that, but that still does not address the need to get policyd to let pass all mail for that domain. -- -- Michael
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