On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Laurie Harper wrote: > I have just recently set up a dedicated mailserver that I am working on > getting configured. I currently have Spamassassin scanning all emails. > Using Procmail to filter all messages over the spam threshold to the > user's home directory. Now I need to figure out what to do with them > from there. It would be really helpful to hear how others are handling > this. > > Do you typically run a script to delete the messages after a certain > period of time, or when the directory reaches a certain size? Do your > users have a way to access/view the spam messages so they can retrieve > potential false positives? > Under our system, users opt into SpamAssassin filtering. When they do, they install this as (or as part of) their personal procmail configuration: #set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #VERBOSE=on #Replace `mail' with your mail folder directory MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log # Use SpamAssassin to examine all incoming mail :0 fw | /usr/local/bin/spamc # deliver "spam" messages to "myspam" folder :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes myspam # End of SpamAssassin recipe (Replace "spamc" above with "spamassassin" if not using the daemonized form of the program). That is, all mail tagged as spam goes into a special mail folder in each user's mail store where they can then examine it for false positives. It is also the user's responsibility to clean up that folder from time to time to stay within disk quota. This works for us because our users do not want to lose any mail, and many are willing to put up with spam to ensure that no real messages are lost. Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
