Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Running a Web Hosting Business : Qmail Spam Filter Needed

[Tina J]

I'm looking for a spam filter for Qmail that my customers can setup and use themselves. I don't really want to filter/censor email for everyone.

Ideally, it would be nice to have some sort of a spam filter that could be used with QmailAdmin. Any suggestions?

--Tina

[allera]

Here's one in particular we're looking at. I haven't purchased it and I haven't found a demo, but it sounds good (with an interface for the user).

http://www.mouken.com/SPAMbaffle/

Also looking at some located here:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=qmail...ction=projects

If any of these look promising to you, let me know so I can take a more serious look at it. I'd rather install something only once so the more educated my pick the better.

[Tina J]

I was actually looking at spambaffle last night. I wish there were some screen shots and more information on it!

Of all that I looked at, spambaffle seemed to be close to what I'm looking for.

Have you installed it yet.

--Tina

[allera]

Our qmail isn't run using user home directories (everything is contained on a server w/o user access), so I'm hacking up this script to see what I can do about adapting it to our setup. I may just look at www.qmail.org 's spam filter documents to see if any of those fit our setup a little better.

The interface is a simple one, no fancy-pants graphics, just forms to fill out rules with. Easily adaptable and configurable (as far as I can see anyway, I haven't tried yet).

[Tina J]

If you don't mind, keep me posted - I will do the same.

--Tina

[jks]

Originally posted by AffordableHost
If you don't mind, keep me posted - I will do the same.

--Tina

The easiest thing is to use RBL blocking. I will ofcourse recommend using the ORDB list to block senders of spam (www.ordb.org).

[Tina J]

Originally posted by jks


The easiest thing is to use RBL blocking. I will ofcourse recommend using the ORDB list to block senders of spam (www.ordb.org).

I'm not looking to censor all of my customers' email - I'm looking for a user-friendly spam filter that my customers can use on their individual accounts and that is compatible with Qmail/Qmailadmin.

--Tina

[jks]

Originally posted by AffordableHost



I'm not looking to censor all of my customers' email - I'm looking for a user-friendly spam filter that my customers can use on their individual accounts and that is compatible with Qmail/Qmailadmin.

--Tina

Nothing in your statement contradicts mine :-)

You _can_ use RBL blacklisting on a per client choice.

For example if you use procmail on your servers, you can put in a procmail recipe that does just that - and only for that single user.

[Tina J]

Okay, to be more specific:

We're looking for a user-friendly GUI interface that our customers have control over and that is automatically setup with each new user account. Must be compatible/integratable with Qmailadmin.

--Tina

[jks]

Originally posted by AffordableHost
We're looking for a user-friendly GUI interface that our customers have control over and that is automatically setup with each new user account. Must be compatible/integratable with Qmailadmin.

Well, if you want the actual feature to be integrated within the qmailadmin system - I don't think there is one yet.

However it should be _very_ simple to make (simply adding a checkbox for "Spam blocking" to the user configuration).