On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:11 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:29 +0100, Samatason Ltd wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> What's the best approach to filtering out spam at server mailbox level? I am > >> running FC5 and SendMail... > >> > >> Best Regards > >> > >> Chris > >> > > There seems to be a sisagreement on this but I would try spamasasassin. > > The program is isntalled but you can find installation configuration > > instructions on the web. > > > > Since sendmail runs procmail on each messgae it receives you can use > > a .procmailrc script to run spamassassin and distribute your mail > > (including the spam found) in to appropriate mail boxes. > > Running spamassassin using a milter has the advantage that you can > reject the spam during the SMTP transaction. So in the rare case where a > legitimate message is mis-identified as spam, the sender gets to know > that it wasn't delivered. You can't safely do that using procmail. > > Paul. > Huh! I have being doing that for years byt having .procmailrc direct identified spam to a special file. Doesn't that do it or do I not understand you point? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
