Per-User SpamAssassin Scores?

[Walter D. Wyndroski]

Thanks for the quick reply. Is any general documentaion available for your
setup? Also, are you also stating that all your users must have SA enabled?
Or can you enable SA for some and not others?

Walt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Per-User SpamAssassin Scores?


> At 21:58 10/06/2004, you wrote:
> >I've been using MailScanner for over two years with excellent results.
I'm
> >now ready to jump into to the SpamAssassin side of MS. However, I need to
> >set up a per-user scoring system if possible. I wanting to write a CGI
> >which would allow users to log in and enable/disable spam assassin for
> >their account as well as set their own scores. I read some material in
the
> >past about using a partial MySQL backend with MailScanner. With the
> >frequency of changes which would occur, I think using MySQL to manage
this
> >would be best. Is this possible to do?
>
> Doing an SQL lookup for every recipient of every message is quite
expensive
> if you have a lot of mail.
>
> What we have done is have a simple DB file generated hourly from an SQL
> table, by a cron job. The MailScanner system uses a custom function to
suck
> in the whole table at startup, then just lookup values in the internal
hash
> table while running (which is really fast). The MailScanner children
> restart every hour, so the worst case is 2 hours between a user changing
> their preferences and the change taking effect.
>
> Due to the nature of spam, you can't tell if your new settings are better
> than your old ones without waiting a day or so. So the max 2 hour delay
> doesn't cause any problem at all, the users don't even notice it.
>
> We have the normal threshold fixed at 6, and "Spam Actions = deliver". We
> let the users set the high-scoring threshold to anywhere between 5 and 10,
> and use "High Scoring Spam Actions = delete" to auto-delete spam scoring
> above their high threshold. They also have the ability to switch off the
> high threshold altogether, so that all their spam is delivered. That is
how
> their accounts are set to start with, they have to opt in to the
> auto-deletion service.
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