Delivery of Spam to alternate location?

[Julian Field]

At 00:41 15/03/2003, you wrote:
>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.

Okay, this is exactly the sort thing that a "Custom Function" could do.
Bung this in CustomConfig.pm:

my $spamserver = 'spambin';

sub SpamActions {
   my($message) = @_;

   return "deliver" unless $message; # Default if no message passed in

   my($to, $user, $domain, result);

   # Loop through each recipient of the message, building the Spam Actions
   foreach $to (@{$message->{to}}) {
     # Get the user at domain bits out
     ($user, $domain) = split(/@/, $to, 2);
     $result .= "forward $user\@$spamserver.$domain ";
   }

   return "deliver" unless $result; # If something was wrong, no recipients?

   return $result;
}

That all goes in CustomConfig.pm. You should also create empty functions
called InitSpamActions and EndSpamActions to be neat and tidy.

Then in your MailScanner.conf, set
         Spam Actions = &SpamActions
         High Scoring Spam Actions = &SpamActions
and restart MailScanner.

Obviously you should change the value of "spamserver" at the top of the
code to whatever your spam mail servers are going to be called.

I haven't tested it at all, but it should basically work okay.
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