Creating blacklist to drop mail

Howard Yuan Howard.Yuan at VALENCE.COM
Fri Jun 11 19:55:02 IST 2004


>>> mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 06.11.04 00:46:49 >>>
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.

Ah, so the only way to drop any email is to tag it spam, ne? Okie.
Thanx.

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