[Dovecot] SpamAssassin

[Eric S. Johansson]

Rick Johnson wrote:

> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
>> I run SA from sendmail via MIMEDefang (to reject the egregious stuff), 
>> and
>> from procmail on delivery (to tag and quarantine the borderline 
>> stuff). I'm
>> not sure why people would use it in the IMAP server, but the question 
>> does
>> come up.
>>
> 
> SA is more appropriate at the MTA level, not the MDA/MUA level. I'm not 
> sure why it would come up either. It's generally called from Procmail or 
> someplace like that.

I concur.  Filtering for spam belongs before the local delivery agent. 
Of course, I complicate things with the hybrid sender-pays system and 
need to grab "outbound" e-mail messages for stamping.  Let's just say it 
makes for an interesting mail server configuration.

---eric

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