Spam Free "Archive Mail"

[Graham S. Jarvis]

Rodney,

Thanks for that idea.

The problem I have is that the server running MailScanner doesn't have
any users.
Mail for each domain is being scanned and then routed to the final
destination via a mailertable entry.
We don't even know who/how many users there are for each domain.

Thanks again for taking the time to post though!

Regards to all,

-Graham-



Rodney Green wrote:
> On 9/10/07, Graham S. Jarvis <gsjarvis at infoservers.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello All,
>>
>> I have tried to google the list for help on how to get the spam out of
>> the "Archive Mail" files.
>> The only thing I could find was:
>> (http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2006-March/059056.html)
>> but DrewB doesn't seem to be around any more.
> 
> The way I've been collecting spam/virus free archives is to use the
> aliases mapping. I set up mail to be delivered to a specific user,
> i.e. "jdoe" in the aliases file (/etc/aliases) to both deliver to the
> user's mailbox file and a separate archive file.
> 
> In /etc/aliases:
> 
> jdoe:        jdoe,/var/archive/jdoe.mbx
> 
> This delivers spam/virus clean messages to both the user's account and
> the archive file at /var/archive/jdoe.mbx. This takes care of incoming
> e-mail.
> 
> As for e-mail being sent by the user, I use the MailScanner archive
> rules. So in archive.rules I would have the following:
> 
> FromOrTo:      default      no
> From:   jdoe at domain.com               /var/archive/jdoe.mbx
> 
> This appends the outgoing mail sent by "jdoe" to the same archive file
> that the aliases file
> appends messages to.
> 
> This is just the way I do it. It seems to work fine for me. I imagine
> some others will have input as to potential problems with this method
> though. :-)
> 
> Rod