Blacklists

[Julian Field]

At 11:36 24/10/2002, you wrote:
>If I add an address to the MailScanner black list rather than the
>SpamAssassin blacklist, will it automatically be tagged as high scoring?

No. It just marks it as spam, it doesn't mess with the SpamAssassin score
at all.

>If I use SpamAssassin blacklists, it will automatically add 100 to the
>score, and so hit the high scoring rules.
>
>On my system, I've decided to tag email with a score of 5 or above as
>'Probably Spam' and high scoring (10 or above) as 'Definitely Spam', and
>so wanted addresses added to any blacklist to be high scoring.

No immediate solution to that, other than to reommend you use the SA blacklist.
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