Infinite Monkeys and spamassassin

Brian May brian at UNEARTHED.ORG
Tue Mar 18 22:17:08 GMT 2003


/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

everything in /usr/share/spamassassin/ get over written during upgrades...
local.cf is never touched.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Desai, Jason" <jase at SENSIS.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: Infinite Monkeys and spamassassin


Is this the typical way of adding new tests to spamassassin?  Would it make
more sense to put these lines in MailScanner's spam.assassin.prefs.conf?  Or
is there some limitation with this specific test that it has to go in
20_head_tests.cf?

The advantage of putting it in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is that when you
upgrade spamassassin, you don't need to remember to update the
20_head_test.cf file.  The advantage of putting it in the 20_head_test.cf
file would be that other applications that use spamassassin can use the same
rule.

So where do people normally put new spamassassin rules?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:56 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Infinite Monkeys and spamassassin
>
>
> Take a look at /usr/share/spamassassin/20_head_tests.cf. You
> need to create
> a new rule something along these lines:
>
> header RCVD_IN_INFINITE_MONKEYS  rbleval:check_rbl('relay',
> 'proxies.relays.monkeys.com.')
> describe RCVD_IN_INFINITE_MONKEYS Received via a relay in
> proxies.relays.monkeys.com
> tflags RCVD_IN_INFINITE_MONKEYS  net
>
> score RCVD_IN_INFINITE_MONKEYS        5.00
>
> This will have to go in the SpamAssassin configuration file
> (other people
> on the list will be able to give you an exact location).
>
> At 09:25 18/03/2003, you wrote:
> >Spam which slips through (score less than 5) is often
> identified by the
> >Infinite-Monkeys RBL. Because i wanted this to add to the
> score i told
> >spamassassin to also do RBL checks (skip_rbl_checks 0), but
> apparently
> >spamassassin doesn'r use the Infinite-Monkeys list because
> the score stays
> >low?
> >
> >  X-AMC-SpamCheck: spam, Infinite-Monkeys, SpamAssassin
> (score=3.3, vereist 5,
> >         BIG_FONT, HTML_50_70, HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,
> MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,
> >         MISSING_MIMEOLE, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT_OE, WEB_BUGS)
> >  X-AMC-SpamScore: sss
>
> --
> Julian Field
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