Delivery of Spam to alternate location?

Nicholas Esborn nicholas_esborn at AFFYMETRIX.COM
Sat Mar 15 00:41:47 GMT 2003


Julian,

I see that Action, but unless I'm mistaken, mail would be forwarded to
a specified email address.  Rather than that, I'm looking for a way of
sending the Spam to an alternative mail server, keeping the destination
address intact or modifying it in a specific way.

For example, if MailScanner identified as Spam a message sent to
nicholas_esborn at affymetrix.com, it could rewrite the address as
nicholas_esborn at spambin.affymetrix.com and send it along.

Then, instead of moving on to the normal affymetrix.com mailserver,
the message would go to spambin.affymetrix.com, which might deliver the
message locally into per-user accounts of some sort.

That way, the main affymetrix.com mailservers would be spared the burden
of handling the Spam, yet users would be able to retrieve their Spam from
their accounts on spambin.

Am I missing how the existing Action = forward directive could do this?

Thanks!

-nick

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:58:22PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> Take a look at the setting
>         Spam Actions = forward
> in the MailScanner.conf file.
> 
> At 22:19 14/03/2003, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I was wondering if it's possible to have MailScanner deliver identified
> >Spam to an alternate server or email address?  The idea would be to send
> >the Spam to a quarantine mailserver, where users could browse their Spam
> >with a webmail client, thus reducing the load on the primary mailservers.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-nick
> >
> >--
> >Nicholas Esborn
> >Affymetrix, Inc.
> >
> >510/428.8505
> >
> >Every message PGP signed
> 
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Nicholas Esborn
Affymetrix, Inc.

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