Re: Spam Filter

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:11 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:29 +0100, Samatason Ltd wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> What's the best approach to filtering out spam at server mailbox level? I am
> >> running FC5 and SendMail...
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> > There seems to be a sisagreement on this but I would try spamasasassin.
> > The program is isntalled but you can find installation configuration
> > instructions on the web.
> > 
> > Since sendmail runs procmail on each messgae it receives you can use
> > a .procmailrc script to run spamassassin and distribute your mail
> > (including the spam found) in to appropriate mail boxes.
> 
> Running spamassassin using a milter has the advantage that you can 
> reject the spam during the SMTP transaction. So in the rare case where a 
> legitimate message is mis-identified as spam, the sender gets to know 
> that it wasn't delivered. You can't safely do that using procmail.
> 
> Paul.
> 
Huh! I have being doing that for years byt having .procmailrc direct
identified spam to a special file. Doesn't that do it or do I not
understand you point?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>