Restricted Word List with MailScanner

[Stephen Swaney]

Check out the MCP feature is MailScanner. It should do what you want. It
will use additional resources.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:25 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Restricted Word List with MailScanner
>
> At 10:39 AM 2/5/2004, Jonathan Lampe wrote:
> >Is there an easy way to use a restricted word list with MailScanner?
> >
> >(No, I don't want a "self-learning" Bayesian filter - I want a word list
> >which into which I can put words which will always flag spam as spam.)
>
> Although it's a bit of work, you can use/abuse SpamAssassin to do that..
> it's overkill for the job, and probably not the simpliest thing to set up,
> but it's possible.
>
> Just set up MailScanner to use SA, disable bayes, awl, dnsbls and hack out
> most of the SA rules.. replace them with rules that search for single
> rules
> and apply huge point scores to each of those rules. As an added benefit,
> you can search for any perl-regex you want, not just words.
>
> If your MailScanner box does delivery, you could also use procmail as a
> MDA
> and have a procmail script filter words.. That's the old-fashioned simple
> way of doing it, and doesn't involve MailScanner at all per-se.
>
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