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[Julian Field]

At 00:42 06/03/2004, you wrote:
>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?...

Within the next month or so. Contact Steve.Swaney at fsl.com for more information.

>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
> >
> >-------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > >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
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
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