Request for comments

[Alex Broens]

On 7/20/2007 6:55 PM, Steven Andrews wrote:
> Why not?  I know specious argument, but this would work well so you
> could apply a penalty or a credit to a certain domain.
> 
> Blackberry devices are just an example, they always trigger certain
> rules that push their scores up.  Are they going to change that fact?
> Nope.  Do I want to lower the value of those rules?  Nope.  They catch
> other traffic.  Do I want to whitelist blackberries entirely...no way.
> If I had a mechanism to punish or credit a certain domain, that would
> allow such a situation where I can keep rules intact but adjust the
> spamminess of a domain.

header BLACKBERY_PASSTHRU   Received =~ 
/smtp[0-9]{2}\.\w+\.\w+\.blackberry\.com\b/
score  BLACKBERY_PASSTHRU   -5.0

does the trick for me

> 
> As well, say you never want to get another email from new zeland
> (appoligies to new zelanders ahead of time), you just add a rule to make
> their mail so spammy you never see it.

use a SA header rule - works nicely for mail from paraguay I don't need 
on my home boxes.
Score 200 = SMTP Reject

> Some of you will say, this is better handled at the MTA; maybe so.  But
> handling it after the MTA give me more flexibility as to what I want to
> do with it and then, say with mailwatch, easily track what I've done. 

SA rules in SQL would solve this... :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Matt
> Kettler
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:40 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Request for comments
> 
> Steven Andrews wrote:
>> No, I'm pretty sure I was suggesting an Adjust SA Score by a ruleset.
>>
>> Steve
> 
> But why?
> 
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