Detecting forwarded spam

[Randal, Phil]

Great idea.

Not!

I'll just send you 100,000 spams with an "X-Spam-Report: IsSpam=yes"
header.

Just what you wanted?

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Michael Masse
> Sent: 15 May 2007 18:21
> To: <MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Detecting forwarded spam
> 
> Is there a way for MailScanner to detect if a forwarded 
> message has already been detected as spam by another system, 
> therefore not needing to run it's own spam check?  
> 
> We have a large number of users who used to use a separate 
> email provider and they now just have that email forwarded to 
> their account here.    Their old system detects spam and 
> creates a header entry like:
> X-Spam-Report: IsSpam=yes
> 
> Right now our system just ignores that, so I was wondering if 
> I can get our Mailscanner to take this into account and not 
> bother with spamassassin checks if it sees this in the 
> header?     I'm sure I could make a spamassassin rule to 
> assign points if it saw this, but the whole point is to not 
> have to get spamassassin involved.   
> 
> Is this possible, or should I just stick with a spamassassin rule?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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