Spam sneaking through mail action rules

[Julian Field]

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At 03:55 07/10/2003, you wrote:
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>Hi folks,
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>         I'm experiencing something that I'm hoping can be worked around.
>I've implemented a mail gateway using MailScanner-4.23-11 and postfix as
>MTA.
>
>         With the recent Sobig's and such, the Administration decided to
>finally allow me to filter spam at the gateway - so long as users could opt
>out. No problem, I collected the names of those folks that wished to opt out
>and built a ruleset that looks something like this:
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>To:     optoutuser1 at foo.com     deliver
>To:     optoutuser2 at foo.com     deliver
>To:     default delete
>
>         Problem is, that while this has decreased the amount of spam that
>makes it to the user, it doesn't eliminate all of it because if a message
>that has multiple recipients has one of the opt out users in the list, it
>gets delivered to all recipients no matter what. From what I can tell about
>20% of our spam marked mail contains multiple recipients with an opt out
>user on it.
>
>         Is there a means to ensure that mailscanner will deliver the mail to
>the recipients that opt out of mail filtering?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>John
>
>John Matney
>Network/Systems Analyst
>Post-Tribune Publishing
>1433 E 83rd Ave
>Merrillville IN 46342
>(219) 648-3089
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