Email Filtering and Spamassassin

[wkg]

Are the filters set up in cpanel upstream or downstream of the Spamassassin filters?

 

I'm hoping they filter the mail after Spamassassin is finished that way I can use the comprehensive features of SA then just set the cpanel filter to discard any email that SA marks as *****SPAM*****

 

This is based on my assumption that the cpanel filter will prevent a filtered email from ever being downloaded by my mail program.

 

Sure I can trash those messages on my local machine, but now that I'm confident Spamassassin is doing the proper job, why waste the b/w and time to d/l them?

[shammer]

I was going to try this same thing, first I wanted to make sure that SA didn't label anything wrong though. So far so good. Please post your results for the rest of us.

[rayners]

Personally, I'd reccomend downloading the email and filtering it out on your own machine instead of automatically trashing it at the server. Mostly as a precaution for the one or two legit messages that get marked as spam every month or so.

 

(Unfortunately, a good bit of that is because somebody sent spam out from an address near to ours, though completely unassociated with TCH, so every now and again, SA will catch a legit email to me and mark it as spam because of that idiot. Admittedly, that particular scenario hasn't shown up in a while, so the issue may have been resolved.)

 

That's just my experience though.