Selective spam filtering?

[Julian Field]

At 23:39 16/09/2002, you wrote:
>Perfect...that is what I need.  Any idea on when V4?

Few weeks away yet. I'll probably release a beta version of the sendmail
code first.

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>
>At 16:04 16/09/2002, you wrote:
> >Any more thoughts?
>
>In V4, it will be something like
>
>Spam Checks = /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/rules/spam.checks.rules
>
>then in that file
>To:     account1 at domain.com     yes
>To:     account2 at domain.com     yes
>To:     account3 at domain.com     yes
>To:     *@domain.com            no
>
>Then it will do spam scanning for account1,2,3 and not for any of the other
>accounts at domain.com.
>
>For those of you that are wondering, this is the form of the generalised
>ruleset configuration system in V4, with which you can pull all sorts of
>useful tricks (yes, you can even make that outgoing mail directory
>(/var/spool/mqueue) dependent on the addressing of the message, so you can
>send incoming mail into 1 queue while sending outbound mail into another
>queue if you want to). There are a few other rule types other than the 2
>above, leaving you the ability to test on just about anything to do with
>where the mail came from or where it is going.
>
>I haven't yet managed to come up with the reason *why* you might want to do
>some of the more obscure configurations that are possible, but I'm working
>on it :-)
>
> > >> 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.
>
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>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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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