high spam ruleset, is this right?

[Scott Silva]

Jeff A. Earickson spake the following on 1/26/2006 1:32 PM:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, shuttlebox wrote:
>>
>> > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:23:50 +0100
>> > From: shuttlebox <shuttlebox at gmail.com>
>> > Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> > To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> > Subject: Re: high spam ruleset, is this right?
>> > > On 1/26/06, Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Writing a ruleset for high spam actions, is this correct?
>> >
>> > To:\tadmissions at colby.edu\tforward
>> jaearick at colby.edu,dsjones at colby.edudelete
>> > FromOrTo:\tdefault\tdelete
>> >
>> > Tabs (\t above) are required, right?  I want high spam for
>> > admissions to be forwarded to myself and dsjones and be
>> > deleted from the admissions mailbox.  Will this work?
>> >
>>
>> Tabs are only required in the filename and filetype files. The delete
>> action
>> on the first row is redundant and it might be on the second too, I'm not
>> sure about that but it might feel more logical to put something there.
>> Another thing I'm not sure about is if you can have multiple addresses in
>> the forward action.
> 
> Ehhh, that doesn't sound right.  I'm replacing the MailScanner.conf line:
>    High Scoring Spam Actions = delete
> with:
>    High Scoring Spam Actions = %localrules-dir%/highspam.rules
> so I better have a default action in there (2nd line).  The comma seperated
> list of email addresses doesn't have any spaces and is RFC822 compliant
> so that *ought* to work.  Don't know if I need the delete on the first
> line.
> 
> I've got the ruleset in place, just waiting for something to admissions
> to trigger it.  Where's a spammer when you need one???
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
Send a gtube message to admissions.
That should hit any high scoring list.

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