MailScanner/Spamassassin/ClamAV + RelayDB (OpenBSD)

[Peter Verhagen]

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Yah I was kind of thinking that. Using the "local delivery agent?"
(procmail) such to catch the re-written spam header by MailScanner. The
real crutch being messages detected as spam I'd still have to deliver as
opposed to silent deletion (spam message not ending up into the end
user's mailbox).

But, with the recent idea of shared folder dump (cool idea btw) where
users can dump their spam into and automate sa-learn nightly, combined
with the mail user agent filters makes a compelling case for it.

Now to fight the powers at be to change from pop3 to imap. I just hope
Dovecot is over it's indexing problem on OpenBSD. But with procmail able
to deliver to maildir folders I'm going to see if switching to maildir
makes a difference.

Thanks a bunch,
Peter Verhagen

Julian Field wrote:

> 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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