Subject Line control (SPAM CONTROL)

[Andrew Hoying]

I've been using spam-assassin, http://spamassassin.taint.org/, along with
mailscanner. Spam-assassin catches about 95% of the spam sent to the company
I work for, up significantly from what mailscanner can catch, but it doesn't
do virus scanning so I have to use both products on my mail gateway. I would
love to see these to products combined into one. I may have a chance to
start some work in that direction in the comming days, but if someone else
would like to look at this, that would be great.

Andrew Hoying


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:19 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Subject Line control (SPAM CONTROL)
>
>
> At 21:21 29/10/2001, you wrote:
> >I am new to mailscanner, so I apologies if this is answered
> somewhere else.
> >Is there a way to scan for word expressions in the Subject line
> to identify
> >Spam mail?  It seems to only catch 20% of the Spam coming through my mail
> >server using MAPS.
>
> No there aren't, I'm afraid. Have you looked at using ORDB, ORBZ and/or
> ORBL as well?
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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