Vincent... This is an excellent approach. I've been wondering about this overnight.
Questions for you though... 1. Using Postfix, how would you prevent mail from being received on those three accounts from the Internet? 2. Would there be any way to implement this for a user's specific bayes database instead of the system wide database? As a preface to that, one thing I've been doing is creating a "Spam" folder and a "Ham" folder for each user... then run an hourly cron job under the username to check that folder and do an "sa-learn" on it as a spam or a ham. But for users who use POP3 instead of IMAP, this doesn't really work out for them. So I thought of this approach but was concerned about the external abilities to send to these email addresses and whether or not it could be done on a user-to-user basis. Same type of subject, but different: would there be a way to implement a style of scripting or whatnot like this for a user to add someone to their personal whitelist without having to ssh in and manipulate the user_prefs file? --JM > A way to go is to setup 3 accounts that lead to your email server, > spam@ > ham@ > forget@ > > each of them having the correct .procmailrc : > > :0 > * .* > |/usr/bin/sa-learn --no-rebuild [--spam|--ham|--forget] --single > > > Beware your users must Bounce (in outlook, that is "Resend") messages, > never > forward them. > > A good idea is also to have those email accounts not reachable from the > internet, > else they might be used to pollute your databases. > A nice way to set that up is to setup some virtualdomain, only in your > internal DNS. > > Vincent > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brent Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:24 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: AWL question >> >> >> What is the best way for a user without shell access to >> remove an address >> from their auto-whitelist? >> >> I have a couple of users that receive an email from a friend >> that ends up >> getting a really high spam score. Then all subsiquent email from that >> person is given a large AWL score and tagged as spam. The >> address can be >> removed from the auto-whitelist with spamassassin -R but >> most of these >> users have no idea how to log into a unix machine. Im >> looking for ideas >> to automate the manipulation of the auto-whitelist for users >> without shell >> access. >> >> Thanks >> Brent >> >> >> > >
