SpamAssassin user prefs w/DB and MailScanner
Martin Hepworth
martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Thu Apr 20 17:27:41 IST 2006
Micheal
Well yeah you can do that I guess, but you can't new SA rules for a
particular user or change the score of a rule...
Or has been pointed out you can get MailWatch to do some of the work on the
email gateway where MS runs....
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Michael Baird
> Sent: 20 April 2006 17:20
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: SpamAssassin user prefs w/DB and MailScanner
>
> Martin, I handle SA scoring/rules on a per user basis using MailScanner
> to score the messages. I have a web interface which generates procmail
> rules based on users selected criteria. I have mailscanner score each
> message with stars, but have my procmail recipe handle each individual
> users settings, as well as subject rewriting. It may be ugly but it does
> allow individual users to specify different thresholds.
>
> Ex.
> SPAMLEVEL=xxxxxxxxxx
> SPAMTAG=*****SPAM*****
> :0
> *$ ^X-Spam-Level: $SPAMLEVEL
> {
> :0
> * ^Subject:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
> {
> SUBJECT=$MATCH
> }
> :0 fw
> | formail -I "Subject: $SPAMTAG $SUBJECT"
> :0
> $DEFAULT
> }
>
> Regards
> Michael Baird
>
> > Leah
> >
> > First thing you'll have to do is split the email into individual
> recipients
> > which can only be done on sendmail or exim to the best of my knowledge.
> >
> > (see http://www.fsl.com/support/QuarantineReport.tar.gz for howto).
> >
> > A lot of ISPs run MS without per-user stuff and have no issues..but
> > splitting the email and using the customfunction you should be able to
> do
> > white/blacklisting on a per recipient address basis - calling the
> function
> > from "Is Definitely Spam" and "Is Definitely NOT Spam" settings.
> >
> > SA scoring/rules on a per user basis is NOT possible.
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Leah Cunningham
> > > Sent: 20 April 2006 16:22
> > > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > > Subject: Re: SpamAssassin user prefs w/DB and MailScanner
> > >
> > > On Thursday 20 April 2006 04:33, Jan Brinkmann wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:50:58AM -0400, Leah Cunningham wrote:
> > > > > I've been starting to deploy MailScanner on several servers and
> have
> > > been
> > > > > quite pleased so far. I am doing a migration now from a server
> that
> > > was
> > > > > utilizing the SpamAssassin user prefs features to allow users to
> set
> > > > > custom whitelists, blacklists, and other settings. These were
> being
> > > > > stored in a mysql backend. Some relevant old spamassassin
> settings:
> > > > >
> > > > > user_scores_dsn
> > > > > DBI:mysql:sqmaildb:somehost.example.net:3306 use_bayes 1
> > > > > bayes_auto_learn 0
> > > > > bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL
> > > > > bayes_sql_dsn
> > > > > DBI:mysql:sqmaildb:somehost.example.net:3306
> auto_whitelist_factory
> > > > > Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList user_awl_dsn
> > > > > DBI:mysql:sqmaildb:somehost.example.net:3306
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have any experience integrating this type of
> configuration
> > > > > w/MailScanner, or pointers to docs?
> > > >
> > > > You can do this using CustumFunctions. Take a look into for example
> > > > '/optMailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions'. There is a file
> > > > called MyExample.pm. You have to write a function, which looks up
> the
> > > > settings in the database. Then you return either 0 for no or 1 for
> yes
> > > > from your function. Scan Messages should be set to yes, and for
> example
> > > > Virus Scanning could be set to &YourCustomFunction :
> > > >
> > > > Scan Messages = yes
> > > > Virus Scanning = &YourCustomFunction
> > >
> > > Ah, I had been hoping that you could just add the spamassassin
> settings to
> > > do
> > > the user prefs lookups.
> > >
> > > Is there another way to implement user level preferences in
> MailScanner
> > > that
> > > would end up being similar to the SpamAssassin user prefs
> functionality.
> > > Basically, I want to be able to allow each user to have their own
> white
> > > and
> > > black lists that only apply to mail sent to their address, at a
> minimum.
> > > It
> > > would be nice if each user can set their own spam scoring prefs, etc.
> > >
> > > Leah
> > >
> > > --
> > > Leah Cunningham : d416-585-9971x692 : d416-703-5977 : m416-559-6511
> > > Frauerpower! Co. : www.frauerpower.com : Toronto, ON Canada
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