watching and processing a Spam folder for each user

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 09/29/2016 12:12 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III via Info-cyrus wrote:
>>>>>> "BJM" == Brian J Murrell via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> BJM> So leaving out the latter part (the per-user database and handling,
> BJM> etc.) I wonder what, if anything exists to monitor the Spam (and
> BJM> NotSpam) folders for all users.
>
> I have a system which sucks things out of everyone's "confirmed-spam"
> folders and feeds it to spamassassin on each filtering host.  It's in
> Perl (back from when I remembered how to do perl) and is probably
> unpleasant.
>
> https://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/spamsuck/
>
> Run spamsuck to pull down all of the spam folders into mbox files and
> empty them.  Note that the "spamkill" user (or whatever you choose to
> call it) needs ACLs ("lrte", I think) on the confirmed-spam folder, so
> your user creation process or sommething run as your admin user needs to
> set that up.  There's no reason you couldn't pull out ham folders as
> well.
>
> Run spamlearn on each filtering host to feed the sucked spam to
> sa_learn.  This updates the global bayes databases, not anything
> personal to each user.
>
> I don't bother to do this all automatically, but you could.


Only problem with that is users always seem to report some stuff as spam 
when it clearly isn't. :-)



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