Custom spam rule to not spam certain emails...

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jun 1 16:56:52 IST 2004


It is easy enough to create a custom rule which detects your exact subject
line and gives it a large negative score.

Take a look in spam.assassin.prefs.conf for a couple of examples which you
could copy.

At 16:57 01/06/2004, you wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>
>Is it possible to create a custom rule for spamassasin and MS to allow
>certain pieces of email with a certain subject to not be checked for spam?
>What about a certain email address that this email is addressed to?
>
>Here is the problem I am having.
>
>We are a mortgage company and we have potential customers who fill out a
>type of application on one of our vendors web site. Once they hit the
>submit buttom on this web site, it is then transferred to us in the form of
>an email. The problem is, that most of these emails, the email addresses
>are @hotmail, @yahoo for the most part. Some of these get through fine, but
>other times, they get tagged as spam and are quarantined. I then have to go
>through the quarantine every so often and release them.
>
>Is there a way to get around this? The two options I thought of were some
>type of custom rule for the Subject line, since all of these emails have
>the same subject.
>The second is a rule to allow all email to a certain email address not to
>be scanned as spam.
>
>I thought i'd ask for some help here.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>I appreciate it.
>
>Jason
>
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