Spam autolearning and spam blacklists

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Sun Apr 25 18:29:53 IST 2004


Hi!

> Apr 25 10:33:32 external-smtp MailScanner[23350]: Message 75AE584846 from
> 4.7.254.117 (lnwbompvnxmso at attorney.ac) to localdomain.com is spam,
> spamcop.net, CBL, DSBL, SBL+XBL, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 7,
> autolearn=not spam)
>
> This mail is certainly spam, but SpamAssassin doesn't have rules for it and
> hence not only gives it a 0 score but autolearns it as not spam. This is, of
> course, badly messing with our Bayes database. Is there any way to tell it
> (via MailScanner?) that if it hits 1 or more spam blacklists (4 in this
> case) it sohuld be autolearned as spam, regardless of SpamAssassin score?

Why not do the RBL checks in SA ? Then it will add the score and also feed
you bayes db.

Bye,
Raymond.

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