RE: [cobalt-users] SpamAssassin forwarding mailbox

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Friday 09 April 2004 11:17, VFastlink Support Team wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > As long as you're staying on the same server this will work fine.  If
> > > you're not staying on the same server then once a day zip up the
> > > mailbox and move it the box you need it on, and unzip it there.
> > >
> > > That script would be so simple even we could do it <smile>.
> > >
>
> <SNIP>  Please cut signature blocks and such on replies.....
> >
> > It doesn't work that way.  We are receiving legitimate email,
> SPAM that's
> > been tagged and SPAM that gets through.  It comes into your
> client such as
> > Outlook Express.  We are looking for a way that our company can have the
> > employees forward the "SPAM that gets through" to a special mailbox that
> > would be a dump of all "SPAM that gets through".  Telling
> SpamAssassin to
> > "learn" from that special mailbox would hopefully cause the
> "SPAM that gets
> > through" to cease.
> >
>
> Then just setup a false user (spamtest) and have all your users
> "forward" the
> spam there ?????  I have several such accounts, some as "honeypots" so to
> speak (never listed anywhere, never used anywhere, never existed
> outside my
> alias file) that if they ever receive mail it is virtually
> guaranteed to be
> spam and the IP in question gets blocked here...
>
> It won't cause it to "cease", but can help SA learn quicker and
> cut it down
> some...
>
> --
> Larry Smith
> SysAd ECSIS.NET
> sysad@xxxxxxxxx

If you have the original mail you should be able to read the headers in it
then forward it to the spam account whilst rebuilding it with the original
headers using PHP, the -f option on sendmail would even allow it to look
like it came from the sending server.

Phil

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