Creating blacklist to drop mail

[Julian Field]

At 00:39 11/06/2004, you wrote:
>I'm trying to create a ruleset that will drop any email going to a
>certain individual(s). I created the blacklist like the whitelist, so it
>reads something like:
>
>To:     blah at domain.com     yes
>
>The problem I'm having is I don't know where to put the ruleset into. I
>tried the Spam Domain Blacklist and the Spam List, but it did not work.
>I looked at the logs and it look like it never even try to look at the
>blacklist, it just did its thing that it always normally did. Any ideas
>or am I going about this the wrong way? I searched MS' website but
>everything I found on blacklisting is having it put in on the Is
>Definitely Spam. But I don't want to always tag it spam, I just want the
>server to drop the email (and not to bounce the email back). Any
>suggestions? Thanx in advance~!

Apply the ruleset to "Is Definitely Spam". Then set "Definite Spam Is High
Scoring = yes" and "High Scoring Spam Actions = delete".

That will still leave you with the normal spam threshold for tagging etc,
it will use the high threshold to trigger deletion.
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