spamassassin tests

[Derek Winkler]

Don't think you can specify spamassassin rules to use per recipient.

You may want to whitelist these domains for those customers.

or

Create rules which lower the score, such as it's to a particular address.

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of InvictaWiz Customer Support
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: spamassassin tests
>
>
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> 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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