nadim wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday 26 July 2004 10:45 pm, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > nadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm also very interrested by an answer as I want my daughters spam (6 > > years old) to be routed to me. > > If it's a six-year-old's email, you really want some sort of parental > mail filtering system where EVERY sender or EVERY email is okayed by > you. A spam filter is not enough.
I could look at all the mails she gets but that not really "nice".
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IMNSHO, a parent's reasonable obligation to protect their young child from harm certainly overrides the right to privacy in this case.
Entitled to my opinion as I may be, however, my opinion is not particularly relevant to your technical question about SpamAssassin... so I'll hereby note my strong objection, and attempt to answer your question below. :-)
</ETHICAL OPINION>
I could also whitelist all the friends she has but when they get the latest outlook worm, sh'll also get the contents.
Take the time to configure a good anti-virus solution. clamav currently has my vote, and can be integrated into most MTAs. At the very least, get a good desktop anti-virus package that will scan email.
Add an internet connection to that and you have me all sweat.She just got the computer but I have to find some solutions soon.
As someone else already pointed out, SpamAssassin can not change the envelope information; it's a content filter. You need your MTA (or some tool of the MTA) to change envelope information. procmail will do nicely, if you already use procmail. I like MIMEDefang, but it is probably overkill for your needs. There are also other packages out there that will assist you with this kind of thing; essentially you just need to be able to set up a simple matching rule to divert all messages containing (for example) the header "X-Spam-Level: *****" to another mailbox.
If, for some reason, you can't do this, you can, of course, have her MUA (mail program) resend all spam flagged messages to you, and delete them from her inbox. Most MUAs have simple filtering rules that will be adequate for this job.
- Ryan
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