I am using procmail with spamassassin for sendmail
MTA. Where I can get the procmail scripts for the mail
diversion? Or Is it a better choice to user milter and
mimedefang integrated with spamassassin for spam
handling and diversion.
Suresh.
--- jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How are you running SpamAssassin? If you are calling
> it from procmail
> then there are innumerable scripts floating around
> for doing the
> bad message diversion. (If you are doing it on mail
> just before it
> is fetched by your mail reader, say OutlookExpress,
> then "No way"
> comes to mind. It becomes a setup issue in
> OutlookExpress. Check
> out filters and the "delete it from server" option.)
>
> There are so many ways to deal with it that I'm
> rather astonished
> you have never run across any such descriptions.
> They float throughout
> the wiki. And someone of modest imagination could
> figure out the
> OutlookExpress rule to deal with spam. (That is
> where I do almost all
> of my spam diversion and spam handling.)
>
> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I am using sendmail as my MTA. Is there any
> option
> > or additional packages to block the spam mails or
> to
> > move it some folder instead of user's mailbox when
> > identifying as spam mail.
> > Suresh
> >
> >
> > --- Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Depending upon what MTA you're using, I have used
> >> the Spamass-Milter
> >> successfully to block emails that rate at or
> above
> >> the required_hits
> >> level (now named required_score).
> >>
> >> Though I'm having some trouble with SA as per my
> >> last post ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> jdow wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >
> >> >> hi, Thanks for the response for my
> >> earlier question.
> >> >> I don't want the spam mails to be delivered to
> my
> >> >> mailbox and to block from the mailclient using
> >> the
> >> >> filters . I want to discard those spam mails
> when
> >> they
> >> >> are identified as spam by spamassassin or to
> move
> >> them
> >> >> to a common place other than the user's
> mailbox
> >> for
> >> >> verification .
> >> >> Can We do that using spamassassin . If
> possible
> >> kindly
> >> >> assist me in doing that where and how to set
> it.
> >> >>
> >> >> Your earliest answer will be very useful
> to
> >> me.
> >> >> Suresh
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Suresh, at the risk of being overly repetitive,
> >> "No, you cannot
> >> > block mails with SpamAssassin. All you can do
> is
> >> score mails so
> >> > that some other agent can look at the score and
> >> dispose of this
> >> > mail accordingly. I have OutlookExpress feeding
> >> the spam to the
> >> > spam folder it maintains. I could have it
> delete
> >> the spam. It's
> >> > also a simple thing to delete the spam with say
> >> "procmail" when
> >> > it is in your processing path. But SpamAssassin
> >> does not delete
> >> > mail. It only scores it and marks it."
> >> >
> >> > {^_^}
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
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