Spam ruleset

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

Thanks for the additional note, I will change mine to your suggestion
mailto:

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:18 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Spam ruleset

Pete wrote:
> Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>
>>  In your spam.whitelist.rules put:
>>
>>
>>
>> FromOrTo:         user at domain.com <mailto:user at domain.com>
yes
>>
>>
>>
<snip>
> IS the difference between the above 2 suggestions,
> 1. use whitelists
> 2. use a spoam check rule
> that 1 will even prevent virus scanning, while 2 will only disable the
> spame/filetype/content filtering?
>
> Thanks
> pete
Pete

Billy's rule will still use the spam checks, but will give a score of
-100 to start with - ie it will be very very unlikely to trigger the
spam catch (default of +5).

The rule that myself and Julian suggest won;t run SA at all for those
emails, thus saving CPU time..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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