Deleting detected spam for some addresses only

Ed Bruce edwardbruce at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 24 14:46:05 IST 2007


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Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 24/04/07, Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com> wrote:
>> What I would like to do is have high scoring spam automatically deleted
>> for some addresses but still delivered for the remaining users.
>>
>> Currently mailscanner configuration contains :-
>>
>> High Scoring Spam Actions = deliver attachment header "X-Spam-Flag: YES"
>>
>> If I change this to :-
>> High Scoring Spam Actions = %rules-dir%/high.scoring.spam.rules
>> and then create the high.scoring.spam.rules file containing :-
>>
>> To:             an.address at domain.com       delete
>> To:             another.address at domain.com  delete
>> FromOrTo:       default                     deliver attachment header
>> "X-Spam-Flag: YES"
>>
>> Would that work?
>> Is there any problems associates with having a quotes string on the
>> right hand side for example?
>>
> Yes, it should.
> You can always do the edits and test them prior to going live... Just
> do the edits, then run
> MailScanner --lint
> and then some permutations of
> 
> MailScanner --value=highscoringspamactions --from=glenn.steen at ap1.se
> --to=some at add.res --ip=127.0.0.1
> Looked up internal option name "highscorespamactions"
> With sender = glenn.steen at ap1.se
>  recipient = some at add.res
> Client IP = 127.0.0.1
> Virus =
> Result is "store delete"
> .... you get the picture:-).
> When you've got it right, just reload/restart MailScanner...
> 
> Cheers

Interesting. What values are valid with "--value" ???
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