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Subject: Re: [courier-users] Filtering Outgoing Mail
From: Phakamile Shabalala <phakamile.shabalala () vcontractor ! co ! za>
Date: 2006-06-27 6:28:03
Message-ID: 1151389683.13056.209.camel () BusinessConnSha ! vodacom ! co ! za
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You could use spamassassin and amavisd-new.
They work very well together.
You should be able to find information on setting them up with courier
mta at this url
http://perlstalker.amigo.net/tiki/tiki-print.php?page=CourierAmavisd-new
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:27 -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> I need to filter outgoing mail for spam and have come up with an
> approach. I'm wondering if anyone else here has implemented a
> solution to this problem, and am posting to let you all shoot
> holes or suggest improvments. :).
>
> 1. Create separate smtp server that only webmail can connect
> to.
>
> 2. On this courier instance,
> cat > esmtproutes
> > [ip-of-current-outgoing-mail-server]
> ^D
>
> 3. Wrap Vipul's Razor in Courier::Filter module.
>
> 4. Reject mail if Vipul says so.
>
> This approach assumes courierfilter will run before esmtproutes
> gets evaluated and used?
>
> Is this assumption correct?
>
> As a related question, do folks here add to Vipul's checksum
> database in any kind of bulk way? If so, how? I was thinking I
> could pipe any mail that got a hit on cbl.abuseat.org to a daemon
> that reports it as spam to Vipul. Not great, but I guess I would
> trust cbl more than user training of dspam. I could just do my
> own spam, but that seems wimpy given the vast volume of spam
> flowing to our mail servers.
>
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You could use spamassassin and amavisd-new.<BR>
They work very well together.<BR>
You should be able to find information on setting them up with courier mta at this \
url <BR> <A HREF="http://perlstalker.amigo.net/tiki/tiki-print.php?page=CourierAmavisd \
-new">http://perlstalker.amigo.net/tiki/tiki-print.php?page=CourierAmavisd-new</A><BR>
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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:27 -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I need to filter outgoing mail for spam and have come up with \
an</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">approach. I'm wondering if anyone else here has \
implemented a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">solution to this problem, and am posting \
to let you all shoot</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">holes or suggest improvments. \
:).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 1. Create separate smtp server that only webmail can \
connect</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> to.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 2. On this courier instance, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> cat > esmtproutes</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> :[ip-of-current-outgoing-mail-server]</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ^D</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 3. Wrap Vipul's Razor in Courier::Filter module.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 4. Reject mail if Vipul says so.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This approach assumes courierfilter will run before \
esmtproutes</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">gets evaluated and used?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is this assumption correct?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">As a related question, do folks here add to Vipul's \
checksum</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">database in any kind of bulk way? If so, how? \
I was thinking I</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">could pipe any mail that got a hit on \
cbl.abuseat.org to a daemon</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">that reports it as spam to \
Vipul. Not great, but I guess I would</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">trust cbl more \
than user training of dspam. I could just do my</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">own \
spam, but that seems wimpy given the vast volume of spam</FONT> <FONT \
COLOR="#000000">flowing to our mail servers.</FONT>
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