Request for comments

[Steven Andrews]

A little off the topic here, but regarding new features...what about
being able to add score to a TLD or domain by rule?

Ex:

Gmail.com		yes	1.0
Hotmail.com		yes	10.0
Mydominan.com	yes	-10.0
Otherdomain.com	no 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of John
Wilcock
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:27 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Request for comments

Matt Kettler wrote:
> No, since when are rulesets in MailScanner in any way redundant with
SA?
> 
> SA can't do something like:
> 	quarantine any message with subject text "You've won"
> 	delete any message with the subject text "postcard"
> 
> Sure you can use SA's rule scores to force your "high scoring spam 
> action", but you can't do *BOTH* of the above actions at the same
time.
> 
> But MailScanner rulesets can.

An alternative suggestion would be to allow MailScanner rulesets based
on SA rule names. This could be potentially far more flexible than just
based on the Subject:, enabling you to take action on just about
anything in the message. Simply write a custom rule, score it at 0.001
if you don't want it to affect the spam score, and trigger a MailScanner
action as a result. Got doubts about a new rule's false positive rate? 
No problem, quarantine all messages that hit the rule. The possibilities
are endless.

John.

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