spamassassin tests

[InvictaWiz Customer Support]

Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear in my rambling earlier message.

I have now allowed .doc in filenames so the attachments shouldn't be stripped.

What I would really like to do next is be able to have a block of rules that are not used for
particular addresses but are for others. In this example, the customer gets a lot of email from
Yahoo, Hotmail etc.... sent by people who use BT, Freeserve or Tiscali (and others) as their dialup
providers. These 3 are the 3 biggest in the UK and all/most of their dialup ip ranges are in dialup
black lists and some are in spam blocks as well.
Most customers don't object to not getting this email, but our recruitment agency customers get most
of their email from these people so don't want it to be blocked or even tagged without lowering the
test scores.

Any ideas?

Martyn Routley
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Behalf Of Derek Winkler
Sent: 21 April 2004 14:59
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] spamassassin tests


You're talking about two different things here.

Filenames such as this are probably being blocked by the "Deny all other
double file extensions. This catches any hidden filenames." rule which is
last in the default filename rules.

It should be safe to completely disable this rule or add rules before it
which allow .doc files.

allow   \.doc$  -       -

If you include the headers from a message identified as spam when it
shouldn't have been we can maybe help you out with reducing the false
positives.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: InvictaWiz Customer Support [mailto:martyn at INVICTAWIZ.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:41 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: spamassassin tests
>
>
> Is it possible to reduce the number/depth of tests for emails
> to specific domains?
>
> We have several customers who operate recruitment agencies.
> They each receive a lot of emails from
> candidates using hotmail, yahoo, mail.com etc addresses and
> who seem unable to send emails without
> using long and stupid names such as "my.cv.for.you.wps.doc.doc.cv.doc"
> The messages nearly always fall foul of the NJABL and other
> dialup tests, and the filename tests.
>
> Can anyone suggest any ways to lessen the number of false
> positives on these without increasing
> false negatives for everone else?
>
>
> Martyn Routley
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