On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:13:10AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:40:16AM +0900, jam wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 08:07:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On Monday 11 February 2008 05:34:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can
> > > > > send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB.
> [snip]
> 
> > ummmm it very simple, not convoluted at all:
> > 
> > Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets vetted
> > 
> > It is delivered, sent to maybe or sent to amspam
> > 
> > every user can accept their mail, or (mailer dependant eg kmail == button) 
> > bounce the mail to user amspam. They can even troll, usually via webmail, 
> 
> Not sure if we are talking about the same thing (might be but I am not 
> getting 
> it).
> 
> I run exim on my server to handle my mail domain
> 
> I use the linkage between exim and spamassassin to identify spam at USER & 
> DATA 
> steps of the smtp connection. This spamassassin runs as spamassassin 
> 
> Then when an email say [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes in for me. exim delivers it 
> via 
> procmail which run spamassassin again but with my DB instead of the system 
> wide 
> one. I have folder setup
> .Ham - a cron job checks in her for email that should be not marked as 
> spam
> 
> .MarkedSpam - this is where the automatically marked spam mail ends up
> 
> .Spam - this is where I place the spam that did not got automatically marked 
> as 
> spam, again a cron job looks at this.
> 
> 
> I would like to be able to take mail from  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (presume it did 
> not get 
> auto marked as spam) and not only add its information to my spamassassin db 
> but 
> to add it to the system wide DB.  I thought about have an email address that 
> I 
> could bounce (mutt bounce) messages to.  But the email will look like it came 
> from me (i think) and thus taint the system wide DB
> 
> I believe what you have described is what I am doing currently, but not what 
> I 
> am trying to extend to - updating the system wide DB

did another google and found this 
http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#sitewide
which shows how to strip of the headers which was the key

> 
> > maybe. Any real mail found in maybe is bounced to amnot.
> > 
> > In my specific case mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] was tagged as spam so 303 
> > was 
> > whitelisted.
> > 
> > If you are not running your mail server, surely your upstream provider does 
> > the dirty work?
> [snip]
> 
> > hmmm seems to work :-)
> > James
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