MailScanner/Spamassassin/ClamAV + RelayDB (OpenBSD)

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 28 20:56:46 GMT 2004


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It appears from your description below that the relaydb fits in at
delivery time. This is after MailScanner has done all its work, so you
should be able to run the two at the same time, no problem.

Peter Verhagen wrote:

> After some tweaking I've got MailScanner successfully setup on OpenBSD
> with SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Now I would like to add some of OpenBSD's
> own anti-spam techniques to compliment MailScanner, so I was hoping
> someone could point out to me a method to "plug in" relaydb after
> mailscanner uses spamassassin to classify  whether or not that the
> message is spam. Much like this example procmail filter does in
> http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.8.txt
>
>         :0fw
>         | /usr/local/bin/spamc
>         :0c
>         * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>         | /usr/local/bin/relaydb -b
>         :0:
>         * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>         in-x-spam
>
>         :0c
>         | /usr/local/bin/relaydb -w
>
> This ( http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html ) page explains the
> scenario better than I could. The main goal here is to reduce the
> overall load on the mailserver.


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