Skipping users

[Glenn Steen]

On 06/03/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij spake the following on 3/5/2007 10:56 PM:
> > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Thomas A. Cameron wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not completely sure what the terminology is for what I'm trying to
> >> do or what layer would be best to do it on, so I'm mailing the list.
> >>
> >> I'll start out by saying I'm extremely pleased with MailScanner. The
> >> entire suite works extremely well, and  in the short time I've been
> >> using it I have already seen better results than from any other
> >> package I have ever experienced with other packages.
> >>
> >> Having said all of that, I have a user that believes he doesn't need
> >> SPAM protection. He believes he can handle the problem better than any
> >> tool. If I had a way to do it, I wouldn't block connections with an
> >> RBL either, just to show him what he's in for. But, that's not
> >> something I really want to get into.
> >
> >> My question is this. How can I tell MailScanner to blindly accept any
> >> email destined for several addresses? Would I be better off doing this
> >> on the postfix level with a header check that tests positive on every
> >> address except his few? I use the SQL whitelist function of MailWatch,
> >> so I can't whitelist wildcards for his address. Is it possible to
> >> chain rule files & modules for the "is definitely not spam" option?
> >
> >> Any suggestions would REALLY be appreciated. This is such a backward
> >> idea, I'm not even sure what I would call it.
> >
> > Well if they want all the spam they want. Let them have it.
> >
> >  1. Put some hidden links with a mailto: to they email address on line.
> >  2. Exclude every check for that user by white listing them in postfix.
> >  3. Exclude them in your MailScanner with a rule in
> >     spam.whitelist.rules like:
> >
> > To:             haasje at vanderkooij.org          yes
> >
> > I use it for a few addresses but for another reason. (Some addresses are
> > used as bait to educate my bayesian filterin manualy.)
> >
> > But if they want it. Let them have is and let them pay for the
> > additional resources like bandwidth and such.
> >
> > Hugo.
> >
> You forgot one;
> high scoring spam action = delete forward lame-user at mydomain.com
>
Challenging Res for the "most evil bunny on list" title, are we Scott? :-)

Cheers
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