[Sderby] Re: Spam filtering

[James Gibbon]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:15:41 +0100
"Andre Hefer (smtp)" <andre.hefer at avhservices.co.uk> wrote:

> (2) This is the order I run the scripts in is:
> 
> (a) Filter out clean mailing list emails;
> (b) Filter out white list emails. I run two lists, one where I trust
> the whole domain and one where I trust specific email address's. I
> harvested these by running a grep on my outbox.
> (d) Filter via razor - you need a permanent connection to the internet
> because razor  checks a "signature" of the email against spam reported
> by other razor users. This is very good for new spam that does not
> match a Bayesian pattern.(e) Filter using virussnag. This picks up
> attachments with bad extentions e.g. .pif
> (f) Filter via spamassassin.
> (g) Do your local filing into mailboxes.
> 
>

You can do (a) very simply from your procmail config (ie for recognised
list mail, jump to step (g) - no need to use a separate script for this).
To an extent you can do this for (b) as well, although clearly if your
whitelist is large, your .procmailrc might become a little cumbersome.

James