Archiving Human Readable Messages

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Mar 16 19:48:01 GMT 2003


At 19:34 16/03/2003, you wrote:
>Ive just installed MailScanner, first Id like to say thanks to Julian and
>the rest of the contributors it looks to be a great project. In
>combination with SpamAssasin its already catching 200+ SPAMs a day for me.
>Im using it to front end my Qmail/Vpopmail system so it runs on a separate
>box with a mailertable entry (I couldnt move the main box because it hosts
>email for some 200+ domains that I dont want to filter just yet).
>Now the challenge Ive got a number of spam potswhich Id like to use to
>increase the hit rate for spam detection.
>My initial plan for this was to use the archivefeature of MailScanner to
>log all the mails to these various dead email addresses. I got that setup
>ok, but its creating the 2 queue files per email. Ive tried tinkering with:
>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>But so far Ive been unsuccessful in simply archiving the full text of the
>message.

That is the correct setting. Just make sure you do a "reload" afterwards
("service MailScanner reload" on RedHat). This will produce a single file
of the headers and the body.
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Julian Field
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