Getting bayes info from a seperate box(Spam trap of a sorrt)

[Adri Koppes]

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You can share bayes and autowhitelist databases between various servers if you put them in MySql.

Adri.


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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of brichter
> Sent: 18 May, 2005 17:04
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: OT: Getting bayes info from a seperate box(Spam trap of a
> sorrt)
> 
> 
> I figured there had to be someone doing something similar with
> MailScanner/Spam Assassin so I figured I would start here.
> 
> Has anyone setup another box with separate domain to help 
> increase bayes
> scoring?
> 
> What I was thinking of doing was setting up a separate box with Mail
> Scanner/Spam Assassin with an unused domain of ours.  Put some email
> addresses for this unused domain out there (web sites, Usenet 
> groups, get
> the ball rolling so to speak) so the Spammers get a hold of 
> them and then
> somehow pipe ALL mail that comes into this spam trap domain as SPAM
> automatically into bayes that resides on this separate box.
> 
> Then somehow share this bayes database with my 3 real Mail 
> Scanner/Spam
> Assassin boxes that handle the valid email traffic for our 
> real domains
> that receive mail.  Would there be any issues since the 
> destination domain
> on all the learned Spam would be different then the domains 
> on the 3 real
> mail servers?
> 
> Is this a bad idea, can you do a check against a bayes 
> database but not do
> any learning? (I am thinking I would not want to have the 3 real mail
> servers updating against the spam trap db)
> 
> If I did this, would I then want to just disable the bayes 
> use on the 3
> real mail servers and JUST have them compare against the spam 
> trap bayes
> database. (I am assuming this would increase the efficiency 
> of the 3 mail
> servers that would no longer maintain their own bayes 
> databases, as they
> currently do)
> 
> Waste of time? Or could this positively help fighting spam?
> 
> Thanks for any feedback on this.
> 
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