Individual user spamassassin settings?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 8 18:54:03 IST 2005


    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

MailScanner always calls SpamAssassin as the same user. Most of the 
things people normally want (score threshold, blacklist, whitelist) can 
be implemented from MailScanner's end.

You should be able to get your spam id success rate up to about 98% even 
without ok_languages, with careful configuration.

Tom Combs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are the ~/.spamassassin/user_pref settings ignored when using 
> spamassassin from within mailscanner? If I'm reading the 
> mailscanner.conf file correctly, only the 
> /root/.spamassassin/user_pref file will be consulted when using sendmail.
>
> I have some people that are getting a lot of foreign language spam and 
> I was hoping to use the ok_languages setting to limit this spam on an 
> individual bases. We get a lot of legitimate foreign language email so 
> I can't do this at the global level. If this ~/.spamassassin/user_pref 
> approach won't work, is there another alternative.
>
> TIA,  Tom Combs
>

-- 
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!




More information about the MailScanner mailing list