[Mailman-Users] Mailman, SPAM (Spamassassin) and Plesk

[Mark Sapiro]

Brian Luria wrote:
>
>The server has a mailman installation on it. I am trying to configure SPAM
>protection. I have Spamassassin installed and enabled on the server
>
>What I am having difficulty with is finding documentation on interfacing
>with the Spamassassin installation via the Plesk control panel. There are
>some minor settings under SPAM filtering, however I cannot figure out where
>the messages would go if they are tagged as SPAM or any sort of approval
>que.


Spamassassin doesn't do that. See
<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.3/README>.

SpamAssassin adds headers to the message and possibly tags the Subject:

Examples of added headers are

X-Spam-Status: Yes
X-Spam-Level: ******

Within Mailman, you can use header_filter_rules to detect and act on
these headers. For example, to discard messages with SA scores >= 10
and hold the remaing messages with scores >=5, you would use a rule
with regexp

^x-spam-level:\s*\*{10,}

and action Discard, and a rule with regexp

^x-spam-level:\s*\*{5,9}(\s|$)

and action Hold.

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