Re: [cobalt-users] MailScanner & SpamAssassin

["Menno s mail list account" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

> http://www.nuonce.net/cobalt-smtp-blackhole.php
> 
> Just follow the directions, and read the very bottom about the two gotchas
> when doing this.  There could be more, but I can't remember.  Just remember
> to back your orginal sendmail configuration (it tells you to do it in the
> instructions).

You need to remember that this will also sometimes block legitimate mail, and 
therefore could upset your users. You are basically giving a third party, the 
blacklist admins, control over whether mail to your users is rejected at your 
server or not. You have to decide whether you want to go this route or whether 
to accept all mail, tagging potential spam and letting your users decide 
whether to delete it.

>BUT, since mailscanner will filter content in From/To fields, can we get 
>MailScanner \
>to filter on other fields like subject and body content as well?  This would 
>be \
>great!

MailScanner uses SpamAssassin to do this. I followed the instructions on 

http://www.qitc.net/support/mailscanner/


Cheers,
Menno