OT: Learn Spam the easy way.

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Wed Jan 26 16:06:54 GMT 2005


Marcel

I do the last option (not with Exchange but with courier-imapd).

As for MailWatch it relies on you quarantining the email as well as
delivering it, so you need a cron to delete the quarantined stuff after
X days..

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Marcel Blenkers wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> currently i am the admin of a system, on which the users do receive mails
> locally, but do not have any kind of shell..
>
> As they are receiving mails considered as spam, they would like to teach
> spamassassin those mails as spam.
>
> But, outlook is not capable of bouncing those mails, so they just forwared
> these mails to my account..but this is not really a lot of help.
>
> So..i am thinking of a way to get those users to learn spamassassin which
> mail is spam and which is not.
>
> Never seen MailWatch, but is it capable to learn mails, which are already
> at the maschine of the user (fetched via pop3)?
>
> Or should i get them switch over to imap, create a box called spam, they
> dp copy the spam-mails into this box, and i do have a cronjob learning
> those boxes?
>
> Maybe someone has some ideas?
>
> Greetings
>
> Marcel
>

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