Selective spam filtering?

[Bill Anderson]

Thanks a bunch.

> 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.
>
> >=======================
> >
> >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.
> >
> >--
> >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
>