[Mimedefang] MimeDefang and SpamAssassin

[Lucas Albers]

I am working on implemting this on my system.
It all comes down to one underlying goal.
I don't even want the spam messages to be on my system.
I plan to reject them completelly.
David has documented his program quite well, and written it quite
modularly, so it has not been as difficult as I assumed.

I will have two settings in the individual sa config.
The required level, which is normally 5.
And the reject level which by default will be at the required level+5.
When spam hits the reject level it gets rejected at the smtp level.

I am not planning to post my modifications anywhere.
I don't want to take away any customers from Dave's Canit program.
Which does what I am planning to do, and more.

If you use a sql backend database to store the user pref's, and then
configure your webmail via squirrelmail, users can configure their mail
for any imap mailbox.
That is you can have a single mimdefang+sendmail+sa, filter mail for
multiple email servers, and users can configure their own individual
settings via the web.

If you use a sql database you cannot use bayesian filtering.

This is the questions I am debating, whether to try and port bayesian
filtering to the sa+sql, or stay with not using the sql database for
storing user pref's.

The bayesian filter port is more difficult then I am willing to attempt
currently. Perhaps after I accomplish the original goal, I might undertake
that port. Probably not.

--Luke
I will never buy anything from Staples Again.
They F. you on the rebate.

>On Sun, 18 May 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 May 2003 listuser at numbnuts.net wrote:
>>
>> > Doesn't this however run one large single Bayes DB for the entire
>> system
>> > rather than for each user?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> MIMEDefang can be coerced into having per-user databases, but it's not
>> for
>> the faint of heart.  You need to stream by recipient and then maintain
>> separate Bayesian databases for each streamed address.
>
> I'd love to do this myself but it's far from my grasp at this point time.
> Someday....
>
> Justin
>
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