sendmail (Junk Mail)

[Robert Canary]

I read that as _not_ to filter add at ress.com, and send it the spam anyway 
unfiltered.  I wonder how else I read wrong.

Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> There is an option in man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
> that might help:
> 
>       all_spam_to add at ress.com
> 
> which should send all SPAM to a given address.
> 
> I am using the spamassassin milter to mark SPAM and the sieve filter in 
> the Cyrus imap daemon to put any SPAM message in a special folder.
> 
>   Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
>   University of Saskatchewan
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Canary wrote:
>> I didn't see that option as a configuration item.  Is that on a user 
>> level or site level?  I have been concentrating on site configuration 
>> and not reading much about the local user config.
>>
>> I am currently reading on the militer stuff, trying to get a good 
>> grasp of what is happening in that arena, how do I control it, how do 
>> configure it, etc.
>>
>> If I am understanding it correctly it is basically an external script 
>> that is feed an email and it should return "something"
>>
>> Oh yes, I have the SPF module loading with the spamassassin from the 
>> config file.  However, it only tags the subject line as SPAM and 
>> doesn't prevent sendmail from excepting it.  I suppose I will have to 
>> do the SPF stuff with a milter ???????
>>
>> Any suggestion of howto write a milter to reject a bad SPF, or is 
>> there already one out there?
>>
>> I have to take a break from this a while, I need to figure out how to 
>> create an IPSec between a Linux box and a windows2000 server.  I'll 
>> come back to the spam issue in about hour.
>>
>> Carl Reynolds wrote:
>>> Robert Canary wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did finally get the spamassassin going, however, it looks somewhat 
>>>> useless to me.  It seems all it dose is tag email on the subject 
>>>> line with the word SPAM.  We already know its spam we don't need it 
>>>> to tell us that, we need it to drop it in a black hole.
>>>>
>>> I created a special mail account for spam assassin and told it to 
>>> send any mail it thinks is spam to that account. That way if I need 
>>> to I can check through the account to make sure my milters are 
>>> deleting the things I want deleted and I have a cron set up to delete 
>>> the contents of that account daily.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Carl.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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