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Confused about Mailscanner
I know what some of you are thinking "no not this dork again". Sorry its my obsessive personality I cant help it :)
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I have been running a postfix+spamassassin+procm
I do not need procmail anymore for the MDA right? If I do not need procmail anymore how does spam that is tagged by spamassassin and Mailscanner get put in ~/Maildir/.spam/cur
Or do I still need procmail?
I really like how spammassassin tags spam and scores and reports on its results. How does mailscanner work? When mail arrives it gets scanned by mailscanner but then what. Lets say that it is spam and it get tags as such. Does it then get passed on to spamassassin for scanning also. See this is the part that is confusing to me. Would someone mind explaining to me how this works.
I am more interested in Mailscanner for filtering out mail with specific attachements than anything else at this point. The file filetype.rules.conf from what I understand controlls all of this. For example can I just do "deny exe" instead of "deny executable".
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I have a few questions to ask and maybe a few more depending on the answers I get. If it gets too involved or you feel its worth more than 500 points then don't hesitate to let me know, I will gladly open up a new post of needed :)
I have been running a postfix+spamassassin+procm
I do not need procmail anymore for the MDA right? If I do not need procmail anymore how does spam that is tagged by spamassassin and Mailscanner get put in ~/Maildir/.spam/cur
Or do I still need procmail?
I really like how spammassassin tags spam and scores and reports on its results. How does mailscanner work? When mail arrives it gets scanned by mailscanner but then what. Lets say that it is spam and it get tags as such. Does it then get passed on to spamassassin for scanning also. See this is the part that is confusing to me. Would someone mind explaining to me how this works.
I am more interested in Mailscanner for filtering out mail with specific attachements than anything else at this point. The file filetype.rules.conf from what I understand controlls all of this. For example can I just do "deny exe" instead of "deny executable".
Thanks,
AD
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Yeah, you can call procmail like that.
You can add custom filetypes that is not allowed in MailScanner, right now I don't exactly remember how do to that. Haven't got it on a machine in within my reach, but the documentation that comes with MailScanner describes this good.
Procmail will probably be the best way of sorting messages to the users spambox. I haven't setup a similiar function in MailScanner myself yet.
Sorry for the late reply, I've been quite buzy lately with studies and Easter celebration...
You can add custom filetypes that is not allowed in MailScanner, right now I don't exactly remember how do to that. Haven't got it on a machine in within my reach, but the documentation that comes with MailScanner describes this good.
Procmail will probably be the best way of sorting messages to the users spambox. I haven't setup a similiar function in MailScanner myself yet.
Sorry for the late reply, I've been quite buzy lately with studies and Easter celebration...
Um, did you really look through the excellently commented /etc/MailScanner/MailScann
# What to do with spam
... Note that it is MailScanner that actually performs these actions (default is more or less "none"...in the disguise "deliver":-). Since it would be less than fruitful to let both samassassin and MailScanner do spam RBL lookups, you should probably lookat making sure only one does... ISTR MailScanner by default is configured to "do it itself":).
Note that both filename and filetype checking come into play, so look through/adjust both.
And you shouldn't _need_ any particular procmail filters for what you want to do, but you can (of course:-) have 'em;)
-- Glenn
# What to do with spam
... Note that it is MailScanner that actually performs these actions (default is more or less "none"...in the disguise "deliver":-). Since it would be less than fruitful to let both samassassin and MailScanner do spam RBL lookups, you should probably lookat making sure only one does... ISTR MailScanner by default is configured to "do it itself":).
Note that both filename and filetype checking come into play, so look through/adjust both.
And you shouldn't _need_ any particular procmail filters for what you want to do, but you can (of course:-) have 'em;)
-- Glenn
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So then If I don't need procmail how can I get all spam that has been tagged to be put in a folder called spam in the users mailbox? Before procmail did this. Are you saying that Mailscanner can do this for me?
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When I think of excutable I think of
bat|cmd|com|js|jse|msi|msp
I have procmailrc setup on my home email server to delete any mail with these types of attachements and it works great. I will just use Mailscanner to do this for me now.
What antivirus works best with Mailscanner? What antivirus is the easyest to setup?
Here is how I picture things working as of right now without mailscanner
postfix ---> procmail ---> Maildir
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|---------- > spamassassin
Here is how I picture things working with mailscanner
postfix.in ---> Mailscanner ---> postfix ---> procmail ---> Maildir
|
|---------- > spamassassin
I would still need to use procmail if I would like all detected spam to get delivered to the users spam box. I didn't hear any arguments otherwise so I will just assume this is the standard way of doing things with mailscanner.
I can just call out procmail to be used in this file /etc/postfix/main.cf like so
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
Am I right?
Thanks for your help