Pipe html stripped email thru spamc twice

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki rzewnickie at RFA.ORG
Thu Apr 15 17:35:52 IST 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:31:04AM -0700, Kevin Brouelette wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > Kevin Brouelette wrote on         Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:09:45 -0700:
> > > My question,  is it possible to have mailscanner take the stripped html
> > > emails and then re-run them thru spamc again to try to catch this type of spam?
> > Why? Use additional rulesets. see spamassassin.org (yes there is a mailing list
> > as well), rulesemporium.com, www.exit0.us.
> > Kai
> Hello
> I asked here because mailscanner is the software that
> controls sendmail, clamav and spamassassin on my setup.
> I thought it would be something mailcanner would do
> to send the mail thru spamc a second time after it does
> striphtml.
> I don't know much about spamassassin 'rulesets'
> so thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
> Kevin

Kevin, note that MS doesn't use spamc/spamd at all. MS uses spamassassin
as a perl library making spamassassin calls directly rather than through
the combination of a spamc client and spamd daemon.

-Eric Rz.



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