From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2010 - 16:21:33 CDT

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* Stan Hoeppner <stanhardwarefreak.com>:
> Would anyone happen to have an example guide showing the proper
> master.cf and main.cf parameters for setting up daemonized spamassassin
> to run super selectively via FILTER?
>
> I've reached the point that I'm killing about 98% of my spam load but
> I'm tired of the few phish/419 that make it into my inbox due to "zero
> day" attacks from compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Squirrelmail, Horde,
> Exchange accounts and the like. I plan on configuring SA to be very
> lean, focusing on body content, bayes, and uribl hits.
>
> All the config examples I find on the Spamassassin site are geared
> toward a "heavy" setup running ALL mail through SA. I absolutely will
> not do this. I need very selective use of SA, one reason being that I
> have spamtrap mailboxen. Running SA "globally" would probably cause
> problems with this. It should only fire on one or two emails a day,
> which are the ones getting through, and these are to a single recipient
> address, mine. I'm using Dovecot LDA, not procmail etc, so I can't just
> run the spamassassin script (which would actually be much easier to
> implement for what I want to do).

Check out spampd <http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/mta/spampd.htm>:

       "(...) It uses an excellent program called SpamAssassin (SA) to do the
       actual message scanning. spampd acts as a transparent SMTP/LMTP proxy
       between two mail servers, and during the transaction it passes the mail
       through SA. (...).

prick

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