Are forwards treated different then BCCs for matching "spam a ctions"?
Derek Winkler
dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM
Fri Apr 16 22:09:17 IST 2004
What "High Scoring Spam Actions" set to?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of James Sizemore
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 6:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Are forwards treated different then BCCs for matching "spam
> actions"?
>
>
> I have a question about what should happen when a message is forwarded
> to a user that uses MailScanner , As an example: A messages is sent
> To: Hostmaster <hostmaster at isdn.net> that get forwarded To:
> James at deny.org, deny.org is spam filtered by MailScanner 4.29.7 using
> Postfix as the MTA, then delivered via a transport rule to the final
> destination.
>
> Received: from smtp02.isdn.net (smtp02.isdn.net [207.65.4.10])
> by treebeard.deny.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC9BA3C10
> for <james at deny.org>; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:40:58 -0500 (CDT)
>
> In MailScanner.conf:
> Use Default Rules With Multiple Recipients = yes
> "Spam Actions = /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.actions.rules"
> In spam.actions.rules:
> FromOrTo: *@deny.org forward james-crap at isdn.net
>
> Now the problem is that some time I get low scoring spam
> in the james-crap mail box (what I want) and sometimes I
> get it in my james at deny.org box (not what I want.)
> I can see no difference in the messages headers that goto
> the junk box and the ones that wind up in the real mail box.
> I'm guessing MailScanner treats BCC's different then forwards?
>
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