Deleting high score messages

[Denis Beauchemin]

Tony,

I have many such lines in my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file and they work
just fine.  I use them to assign high scores to hoaxes and I see many
every day.

Never tried the new debug options though...

Denis
Le mar 15/04/2003 à 14:51, Tony Finch a écrit :
> Joe Quinn <joe at QITC.CO.UK> wrote:
> >
> >I'm still trying to get certain messages deleted with a "To" address. I've tried this but the
> >messages still get through and I have delete high score set to yes in the mailscanner conf.
> >
> >In /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> >
> >>>>
> >header KELTICA_MEDIA To =~ /admin at keltica-media.co.uk/i
> >describe KELTICA_MEDIA To: admin at keltica-media.co.uk
> >score KELTICA_MEDIA 100.0
> ><<<
> >
> >Any ideas?
> 
> I sent an email to Julian about this a couple of weeks ago. The
> default spam.assassin.prefs.conf is misleading. MailScanner's
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf is a user preferences file, and SpamAssassin
> doesn't let you define rules in a user preferences file (though it does
> let you change their scores). If you turn on the MailScanner configuration
> options "Debug" and "Debug SpamAssassin" you'll see it complaining that
> the above lines are invalid and have been ignored.
> 
> To work around the problem you should put those lines in SpamAssassin's
> local.cf which it looks for in '/usr/local/etc/spamassassin',
> '/usr/pkg/etc/spamassassin', '/usr/etc/spamassassin',
> '/etc/mail/spamassassin', '/etc/spamassassin', and if you don't like any
> of those places you can use the (undocumented) MailScanner configuration
> option "SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir".
> 
> Tony.
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