How to ignore some recipients in a SpamAssassin Rule Actions ruleset

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 3 19:30:55 GMT 2009



On 3/1/09 19:12, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 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.
>    
Ah, hmmm...... the <tab> and <space> thing is irrelevant. Put in a rule 
name that doesn't exist and it will work fine. I swear it worked for me.
>
>    
>> 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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