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[Hywel Burris]

I am in discussions with alt-n at the moment as they are letting bounced
viruses in to us, being the spoofed recipient! Mdaemon is a good product as
a MTA but its no where near the quality of MailScanner for virus / spam
detection...I am hoping to swap to mailscanner soon as I have been using it
for a smaller organisation for a year now.

Julian any idea when the commercial product may be available?...I am asking
this I can see it being a sticking point with the company I am working for
:(

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: 05 March 2004 09:06
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject:

At 04:07 05/03/2004, you wrote:
>Dear Julian,
>
>But i am previously use the Windows MDAEMON mail server with internal
>integrated spamassassin engine. Two things that i don't see in MS are:
>1. spam sore can be placed in the subject.

Yes it can. From MailScanner.conf:
# This is the text to add to the start of the subject if the
# "Spam Modify Subject" option is set.
# The exact string "_SCORE_" will be replaced by the numeric
# SpamAssassin score.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Spam Subject Text = {Spam? _SCORE_}

>2. spam rules description can be placed beside the rules name in the mail
>headers.

Most people don't want this amount of detail (or the loss of speed that
results from modifying every message body), so I chose to only include the
rule names and scores, and not the long descriptions.

>For the first point, people with lots of spams can easily filter out some
>high score that are not yet qualified for the settings in the mail gateway.
>
>For the 2nd point, my customers want to be more clear about how the rules
>are running and sometimes can make more suggestions for tuning the
>spamassassin. Since i am running with many different domains and different
>users. They all want different settings.

You can specify different settings for any arbitrary groups of domains or
users as you choose. See the docs about rulesets.


>How is this 2 possibility to be added to MS ? That would be great!
>
>Example:
>----------------
>Subject: ***SPAM*** Score/Req: 09.73/05.00 lackluster carroll
>
>X-Spam-Flag: YES
>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11)
>X-Spam-Report:
>         *  1.5 MORTGAGE_PITCH BODY: Looks like mortgage pitch
>         *  0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
>         *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
>         *  0.8 BIZ_TLD URI: Contains a URL in the BIZ top-level domain
>         *  3.0 SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS Similar addresses in recipient list
>         *  4.3 SORTED_RECIPS Recipient list is sorted by address
>X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.7 required=5.0 tests=BIZ_TLD,HTML_MESSAGE,
>         MIME_HTML_ONLY,MORTGAGE_PITCH,SORTED_RECIPS,SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS
>         autolearn=no version=2.63
>X-Spam-Level: *********
>X-Spam-Processed: xxxxxxxxxxnet, Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:05:32 +0800
>
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>
>
>
> >Date:         Thu, 1 May 2003 16:53:52 +0100
> >Sender:       MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >From:         Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> >Not sure if this has been addressed before, but I was wondering is it
> >possible to put the spamassassin score in the subject line of tagged
> >e-mail?
> >
> >e.g.
> >
> >{SPAM? email score=4.1}...
>
> >No it isn't I'm afraid. But the "SpamScore" header lets you indicate the
> >spam score in a way that can be filtered automatically by email
applications

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