[rt-users] Advice for spam filtering

Tomas Olaj tomas.olaj at usit.uio.no
Mon Jan 16 09:18:48 EST 2006


On the marvelous Mon, 16 Jan 2006, rt-users-request at lists.bestpractical.com...

> I wrote a perl spam filter a while ago which is
> multi-purpose.  Basically, it sits between sendmail
> and RT.  In the /etc/alises, rather than pointing at
> the RT queue, mail goes through my filter.  If certain
> keywords are matched, the email is dropped (or
> redirected to another queue-- why not?).  If no match,

Sure. We use our own queue to put spam into and mark them as 'deleted'.

> it goes into the usual queue.
> So, I'm sure SA adds some tags which my filter could
> key off of, and redirect accordingly.
>
> If you'd like a copy, let me know.

Have a look at spam-handling in this document:
http://www.usit.uio.no/it/rt/modifications.html

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  University of Oslo / USIT (Center for Information Technology Services)
    System- and Application Management / Applications Management Group



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