Aaron Konstam wrote:
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?
Doing this means that *you* get to see the mail identified as spam, when
you look in the special file. Rejecting the message in the SMTP
transaction means that the *sender* knows you didn't get the email, so
they can either try resending a less-spammy message, or contacting you
by other means if it's something important. No intervention needed on
your part.
Paul.
