Re: spamass-milt and user_prefs in SQL

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 24), Eric (Kagi Engineer) said:
> We are in the process of setting up spamassassin for site-wide use
> and our volume is such that we have to use spamass-milter.  We also
> have a strange need, in that we have thousands of email addresses
> that we forward email for that do not correspond with a real user on
> the mail server.  So we would like store spamassassin user_prefs in
> SQL. However, in order to do that spamd needs the different "user"
> for each email passed to it (so it can lookup the prefs for that
> user).  I'm wondering if spamass-milt can do this currently (I don't
> see that it does from the source code), or if this is a planned
> feature?  If not, I'm thinking an idea would be to parse the "To:"
> header and obtain the "user" and then pass it on to spamc with the -u
> option.

Patch #381 might be useful here.  One thing to be aware of is that a
message is miltered as it enters the sendmail system, so an incoming
message with three local recipients gets miltered only once.

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        Dan Nelson
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