Per user configurable spam killer with postfix and SpamAssassin?
Per user configurable spam killer with Postfix and SpamAssassin™
Mikko Pikarinen <goblet@goblet.net>, October 2003
Preface
Software
The configuration of Postfix
The configuration of Procmail
The brain of the system
About the performance
Preface
We have a mail server which has a little more than 2000 virtual users
and some quite active mailing lists run by
Mailman. The main idea of the server is to
serve members of an association so that the people can have
address@ourdomain and the mail arriving to those addresses is forwarded to
their real mail addresses.
The spam percentage of all mail coming to our server is shocking.
Incoming count is about 40000-50000 emails per week and only less than
10000 of them is not spam. About 15000-25000 is blocked by
ordb,
dsbl,
rfc-ignorant.org
and our own access lists. The rest get through and are checked by
SpamAssassin. Less than one third of them are tagged as not spam.
Some of the people wanted their all mail, even spam, to be forwarded to
them and just to be tagged by SpamAssassin. Some of them wanted everything
even smelling spam to be totally killed before going to fill their real
mailboxes. Somebody wanted only ...
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