Request for comments 3

[Gareth]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:40, Ken A wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
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> > Well, initial testing is showing it working very well. The aim is that 
> > you can have anything in the message (expressed as a SpamAssassin rule) 
> > trigger any action on the message, spam or not. So you can archive any 
> > message containing particular bits of text anywhere, or you can _not_ 
> > deliver any message with a certain bit of text in it.
> > 
> > Say you have all mail copied to an archive, but you want certain 
> > sensitive mail of your own (or your boss's) not archived, then you can 
> > write an SA rule for some subject keyphrase or piece of text in the body 
> > of the message. You can then not archive any mail matching that SA rule.
> > 
> > So the boss could have all his email CC'd to his secretary, except for 
> > personal mail containing "private" on the Subject line, or mail coming 
> > from his family.
> > 
> 
> Very handy! What about (or is there already?) a MailScanner 'action' 
> that says 'feed the message to a program', like is possible in 
> sendmail's alias file, so that some processing could be done on the 
> message? This would open up more possibilities, like processing mail for 
> delivery to other devices (text message, etc), or adding some useful 
> context to the message for archival and searching use. I know this sort 
> of thing also opens up some possible security issues. ;-)

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned but I have not been
following this thread that closely.

Your suggestion sounds like a very good idea. I have a few spamtrap
addresses that I use for monitoring to see if any spams get through so I
can write rules for them etc...
Normally they are delivered and our internal mail server just delivers
anything identified as spam.

Now if I could pass all non spam straight through but for all identified
spam automatically report it via pyzor and razor and then delete the
mail that would be very usefull.