Using rules to control Spam filtering

[Steve Swaney]

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Alejandro Lengua - Virtual Orbis
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Using rules to control Spam filtering
>
> 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.
>

This Feature already exists in SpamAssassin. You can create your own
rulesets to match and score anything in the Subjetc, header or body of a
message.

Steve


Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

> 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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