Feature Requests

[Julian Field]

On 1 Jun 2005, at 01:22, Dennis Willson wrote:
> I know I will probably get flamed for this (although this seems to  
> be a much better group about those sort of things that most of the  
> lists I have been on).
>
> I have a couple of feature requests and I will explain why I want  
> them as well.
>
> A third Spam level
>     Currently I don't actually block (delete) any mail regardless  
> of how high the Spam rating is, but would like to. Currently I use  
> the two Spam levels as "might be Spam" and "most like is Spam" and  
> I mark the subject differently. The first I mark with [Spam?] and  
> the high level I mark as [**Spam**] and most of my customers filter  
> these differently. The low level is set at a score of 3 and the  
> high level with a score of 7.  However I would like a third that I  
> could set fairly high (say a score of 25) and set if for actual  
> delete. I would have said a delete level except that I would want  
> to be able to set if it mark and forward to me during some fine  
> tuning so being able to use just a third level is best.

However many levels I provide, people always ask for another one :-)
This is pretty easy to implement with a Custom Function.

> Multiple sets of Blacklists
>     Currently I have MailScanner set to mark any email that is on  
> any of the blacklists as high level Spam and not to scan it with  
> Spam Assassin if it's already on a blacklist. However some  
> Blacklists are more trustworthy than others. I have my own DNSBL  
> with 450,000 addresses I have collected with my honey pot and of  
> course I find mine very reliable, there's a virus blacklist and  
> there're others... While some of them are not so accurate or don't  
> have a good way for fixed servers to get off of them. I would like  
> to have one set of blacklists that I can set to work where you can  
> assign what Spam level is set if the email is found on one or more  
> of the blacklists and one set to actually delete if listed.

If you effectively want to score blacklists, then do it in  
SpamAssassin, that provides a system to do all this.

> Also an API that allows me to write my own filter system that is  
> called by MailScanner similar to the way SpamAssassin is where I  
> can examine all the information in the email and come back with a  
> score. In MailScanner it would have the ability to define my module  
> and where in the list of modules (anti-virus, SA, etc...) it's used  
> and if it gets a high value whether or not to continue with the  
> rest of the modules.

There is a generic virus scanner module, but not a generic spam  
scanner module. I will take a look at this one.

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