Using rules to control Spam filtering

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 29 16:59:36 IST 2004


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I'll take a look at doing that, and see how hard it is to implement. Might
well be fairly easy.

At 16:40 29/09/2004, you wrote:
>Following on the same subject, I have also noticed that it is not possible
>to make rules based on Subject (e.g. "viagra"), am I right? If not, if this
>planned for a future release? I would be nice and very useful to have this
>feature.
>
>Regards
>Alejandro Lengua
>
>Michael H. Martel wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I want to use rules to control which messages get fed to SpamAssassin.  I
>>want to do this so that lists that contain Spam stuff don't pollute the
>>Bayes Database.  To that end I setup a rule that I _thought_ would do it.
>>It doesn't appear to.
>>
>>My initial thought is that I can't filter on the incoming To line.  And
>>that the To in FromOrTo is for outgoing.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>># Do you want to find spam using the "SpamAssassin" package?
>># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>>#Use SpamAssassin = yes
>>Use SpamAssassin = /opt/VSC-MailScanner/rules/spamassassin.rules
>
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