Spamassassin Reporting Qn

[Glenn Elliott <Gl...@emerging.com.au>]

Guys,
 
Spamassassin sits on our DMZ mail server and cleans the spam nicely,
protecting our internal MS Exchange box.
 
I want to report spam which users receive on exchange... I can get them to
forward any spam to a mailbox on the spamassassin mail server and run
spamassassin -r to report on the mail.
 
My question is does spamassassin use the from address when learning as the
from will equate to the internal users email address and not the spammers...
I dont want to register my internal users as spammers!
 
Thanks for your time.
 
Glenn.
 

Re: Spamassassin Reporting Qn

[Rainer Sokoll <R....@intershop.de>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:52:29PM +1100, Glenn Elliott wrote:

> My question is does spamassassin use the from address when learning as the
> from will equate to the internal users email address and not the spammers...
> I dont want to register my internal users as spammers!

IMHO, it does not make sense to scan mail from your internal users. Its
just wasting resources.
Here, in a similar setup like yours, I use spamass-milter to feed SA.
The milter can ignore mail from the internal network:
>From the startup script:

---8<---
su amavis -c "/usr/local/sbin/spamass-milter -i 10.0.0.0/8 -f -p \
/var/spamass/spamass-milter.sock"
---8<---

So, everything from 10/8 is ignored


Rainer