SpamAssassin acting as a filter for /another/ mail server.

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 14:33 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 17:27 -0400, Julian Underwood wrote:
> > Hello list.
> > 
> > I am happily running spamassassin, clamav, MIMEDefang, sendmail, dovecot
> > on FC2 as my personal mail server.  Works fantastically in nailing spam
> > and viruses.
> > 
> > I want to set up the same box, except would like it to do the following:
> > forward all legitimate mail to a box on the LAN, and forward all SPAM,
> > viruses to the same box but to SPAM at domain.com.  I'm sure this is an
> > easy thing to do, but I'm not sure /where/ to do it.  Do I configure
> > this forwarding in sendmail or MIMEDefang?  So basically the box would
> > act as a filter.
> > 
> > I've searched Google for some time and couldn't really find a good
> > article on how to do this--does anyone have a link they could send me?
> > 
> > With so much spam out there, building an open source box like this is
> > awesome in that there is no cost.
> > 
> ----
> man procmail
> 
> can't figure out what another box is supposed to do for you.
> 
> Craig

Procmail is really not the appropriate tool here.  Look into milters.

TC