Request for comments 3

[Alex Broens]

On 7/24/2007 4:40 PM, 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.
>>
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> 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. ;-)

force sa-learn --spam would be one without a security issue.
or, if a message gets released from Mailwatch, sa-learn --ham