Re: Every spam is sacred: tagging mails because of their content or their supposed origin?

[Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:33:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Today I noticed those summaries were getting spamassassing scores in the
> 30 range. I ended up whitelisting myself, though that doesn't feel like
> a good idea -- now SA might mislearn spam subjects as ham, and any
> spammer who forges mail from me will probably get through.
> 
> Aside from bypassing SA entirely for local mail, is there any better
> approach?

Are you using procmail? Set a rule that if the mail is sent by you, with a
header stating that themail was originated locally, do not use spamassassin.

Are you using postfix? Set postfix so that mail delivered locally uses a entry
like:
127.0.0.1:smtp ...
<external_ip>:smtp ...
  -o content_filter=filter:

filter    unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=Rq user=pffilter argv=/home/pffilter/filter.sh -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}

Create a user "pffilter" and put in "filter.sh":

/bin/cat | /usr/bin/spamc -f | /usr/sbin/sendmail -i "$@"
  
Set your spamassassin to run spamd, which is always a good idea.

That will separate incoming mail and outgoing (local) mail to be checked by
SA.

HTH

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