> I think it would be nice to have a SpamAssassin HOWTO that illustrates > how SpamAssassin can be used to reduce TMDA's challenge-response > workload, in particular towards messages that are clearly spam > (according to SpamAssassin).
I think this is a terrific idea, and the timing for us couldn't be better. We're trying to figure out the best way to achieve the following general flow: 1. Mail is checked for viruses and run through spam filters (SpamAssassin) 2. If spam score is below a certain threshold, deliver. If the score is above a certain threshold, quarantine/discard. If SA can't confidently classify as spam or ham, challenge via TMDA We'll call step #2 above the "Challenge Check." We're trying to figure out which process should be handling the Challenge Check logic outlined above. The XAMS configuration currently looks like this: 1. Mail received by Exim is stored in /var/spool/exim-incoming 2. MailScanner (MS) reads exim-incoming spool & checks for new messages 3. MS processes messages (virus checking, SpamAssassin, etc.) 4. MS writes cleaned & tagged messages to /var/spool/exim-outgoing 5. Exim-outgoing process delivers any mail it finds in exim-outgoing spool (See following link for more detail:) http://www.xams.org/documentation/xams-mailscanner.pdf The question is: where is the best place for the Challenge Check to go? Should TMDA handle this logic? MailScanner? SpamAssassin? I would be thrilled to hear what everyone thinks. Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch, Justin Member, XAMS Project Team http://www.xams.org/ XAMS: Smarter email management ========================================================================== > From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:15:45 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SpamAssassin HOWTO anyone? > > I think it would be nice to have a SpamAssassin HOWTO that illustrates > how SpamAssassin can be used to reduce TMDA's challenge-response > workload, in particular towards messages that are clearly spam > (according to SpamAssassin). > > There are hundreds of messages in the archives, but no concise > documents detailing how one can leverage SpamAssassin analysis from > one's TMDA FILTER_INCOMING file. > > Is anyone interested in contributing a HOWTO to > http://wiki.tmda.net/index.cgi/TmdaHowtos ? If not, perhaps I'll make > a separate SpamAssassin page in the wiki to ask people to post > descriptions of their TMDA/SpamAssassin configurations. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
