Spam blacklist?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jan 9 00:10:03 GMT 2003


At 21:24 08/01/2003, you wrote:
>Indeed, that is one possible solution.
>
>But not all of my boxes run spamassassin, particularly RedHat 6.2 is very
>difficult to get SA properly installed. Lots of things to upgrade and 90%
>of the spam problem is from or to a limited set of e-mail adresses on my
>boxes.
>
>But one would think that a blacklisted mail adress would be processed
>according to high scoring rules, otherwise there isn't much use in
>blacklisting them :)

My black/white-listing isn't really connected to the SpamAssassin scoring
code. Maybe it should be.



>On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Lewis Bergman wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 04:24 am, Remco Barendse wrote:
> > > I have a rule list that will mark certain messages as spam even though
> > > there is no other reason to mark them as spam. This is working perfectly.
> > >
> > > I have noticed however that MailScanner will treat messages that are
> > > marked by a blacklist rule as low scoring spam?
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to change this to high scoring spam? After all you
> > > want to blacklist them. I allow low scoring spam messages to go through
> > > but high scoring stuff is forwarded to an alternate address. I would like
> > > to do the same for the blacklisted stuff.
> > Why not use SA to do the RBL checks and then assign them a score which will
> > force them into the high score category using the spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> > file?
> > --
> > Lewis Bergman
> > Texas Communications
> > 4309 Maple St.
> > Abilene, TX 79602-8044
> > 915-695-6962 ext 115
> >
> >
>
>
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