Dealing with 'Pharmacy' emails...SOLVED

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

You can see from the log entries which rulesets are blocking what. From
using a lot of custom rulesets I don't think you will find a silver bullet
solution - you need to run a combination.


Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Jason Williams
Sent: 29 April 2004 22:18
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Dealing with 'Pharmacy' emails...SOLVED

Problem solved...easy one really. :/

SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir =

was blank..

put in

SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin

Sent a test message through (specifically checking the antidrug.cf rule set)
*snip*

SpamAssassin (score=6.051, required 5, DRUGS_ANXIETY 0.01,
DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC 1.00, DRUGS_DIET 0.01, DRUGS_DIET_EREC 1.00,
DRUGS_DIET_PAIN 0.50, DRUGS_ERECTILE 1.00, DRUGS_MANYKINDS 1.00,
DRUGS_MUSCLE 0.01, DRUGS_PAIN 0.01, DRUGS_PAIN_EREC 1.00, DRUGS_SLEEP 0.01,
DRUGS_SLEEP_EREC 0.50, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00)

Which leads to a different question:

Let's say you have a whole bunch of custome rule sets. Is there way to
track which ruleset blocked specific emails? This way, you can gauge which
SA rule set is working better/harder than others...

Thanks!

Jason




>Thought i'd post a few things that I came across to help solve my
situation.
>
>Since im running FreeBSD, instead of most files and directories being in
>/etc/, mine are in /usr/local/etc...
>
>Now, I put the anti-drug.cf file that I got from the SA emporium and
>dropped it into /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin. I'm pretty sure that is
>the correct place to .cf files...
>
>Now, after running spamsassasin -D --lint as well as spamassassin -D -p
>/usr/local/etc/Mailscanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
>Obviously, two different results, but my thinking is that I may be missing
>something, that I need to setup in spamassassin to get it to find the .cf
>rules.
>
>I'm looking through the FAQ and MAQ right now, but thought i'd post what
>i've found out so far.
>
>I appreciate the help.
>
>Jason
>
>>Been testing my configuration here pretty thoroughly lately. The last one
I
>>just did, I sent a piece of email that I just received that had the
>>contents of all these pills that you can buy; viagra, vicodin, xanax
etc...
>>
>>I sent the sucker through and it did not get tagged as spam.
>>Right now, im trying to tweak my rules to make sure stuff like this does
>>get tagged as spam.
>>
>>I have d/l the anti-drug.cf rules from the SA emporium and placed them in
>>/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin directory (FreeBSD here)...
>>
>>Anything else anyone can think of to get rid of this crud?
>>If im posting on the wrong list I apologize. Everyone here is very helpful
>>and very 'cool' sorta speak.
>
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