Creating blacklist to drop mail

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 11 16:53:16 IST 2004


At 16:40 11/06/2004, you wrote:
> >>> ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM 06.10.04 16:59:52 >>>
>Howard Yuan 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~!
>
>http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#howtowhite
>
>Won't just putting my blacklist in "Is Definitely Spam" just
>permanently tag it as spam? I want the server to drop mail from certain
>people, but not all spam. Otherwise, I could use that and then set it to
>drop all spams. Any other options?

But you can make the "Definite" spam be treated as high-scoring, and then
just delete high-scoring spam. Your normal low-scoring spam can be handled
separately.
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