How to ignore some recipients in a SpamAssassin Rule Actions ruleset

[Mark Sapiro]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:53:29AM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> As the default value for the setting is just blank, all you have to do 
> is give blank as the value for the address.
> 
> So the line just needs to read
> To: user at example.com
> 
> That's all there is to it.


I've tried that. More specifically, I've tried

To:<tab>user at example.com
To:<tab>user at example.com<tab>
and
To:<tab>user at example.com<tab><space>

where <tab> and <space> are the respective characters, and none of those override the default rule action.

 
> Jules.
> 
> On 3/1/09 01:14, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >I have searched the list archives and the documentation wiki and
> >haven't found an answer.
> >
> >In MailScanner.conf I have
> >
> >SpamAssassin Rule Actions = %rules-dir%/spamassassin_rule_actions.rules
> >
> >In spamassassin_rule_actions.rules, what is the proper way to specify a
> >null action for some recipient. I have
> >
> >
> >FromOrTo:  default  SA_RULE_NAME=>action_list
> >
> >and that works fine. I want to exempt a recipient from these actions. I
> >know for example that I could put
> >
> >To:  user at example.com  ZZZ_BOGUS_RULE=>action
> >
> >Where ZZZ_BOGUS_RULE is a non-existent rule, but that seems somewhat
> >kludgey.
> >
> >The usual "yes" or "no" don't seem appropriate here as they aren't the
> >kind of values that are expected for SpamAssassin Rule Actions.
> >
> >I found through experiment that
> >
> >To:   user at example.com    ""
> >
> >seems to work as does
> >
> >To:   user at example.com    SA_RULE_NAME=>
> >
> >and
> >
> >To:   user at example.com    SA_RULE_NAME
> >
> >but
> >
> >To:   user at example.com    ,
> >
> >doesn't work.
> >
> >Is there a "correct" or a preferred way to do what I want?
> >
> >   
> 
> Jules
> 
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