Selective spam filtering?

Bill Anderson billa at STERLING.NET
Mon Sep 16 16:04:15 IST 2002


Any more thoughts?


>> I'll have to think about that one...

At 16:43 13/09/2002, you wrote:
>I have been playing around with the whitelist, but I can't seem to figure
>out the best way to accomplish what I need.
>
>Basically I have a domain, somedomain.com, which has about 3000 email
>accounts on another mail server.  Only about 100 of the accounts want spam
>filtering.  From what I can see with the whitelist, I need to put 2990 To:
>accounts in the whitelist.  I guess it could be done, but it would be a
>management nightmare.
>
>Is there an easier way to just identify the 100 accounts as getting
>filtered, while leaving the other 2990 unfiltered.  Thanks.
>
>At 02:56 13/09/2002, you wrote:
> >I am currently using mailscanner with spamassassin and sendmail.  I am
only
> >using the spam feature to filter spam for specific domains that are
hosted
> >on other mail servers.  Can I only spam filter for certain addresses in
the
> >domain, while letting everything else through?
> >
> >someone at somedomain.com gets filtered
> >*@somedomain.com no filtering
> >
> >Is this possible with my config?
>
>Yes, the spam whitelist lets you do exactly this. Take a look at the sample
>supplied spam.whitelist.conf file.
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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