Selectively bypassing Bayes

Kevin Miller Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us
Wed Sep 2 17:12:15 IST 2009


At this point they don't, but I'll be building a new MailScanner box soon, as the distro it's on is now out of support.  When I do I'm going to see about getting all my internal boxes pointed to it so I can watermark.  It's a great feature that I probably should have jumped on long ago!  The current box that I'll be replacing doesn't quite have the horsepower to send all my outbound mail through.

Best...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500



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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:01 AM
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Subject: Re: Selectively bypassing Bayes

Kevin

if you mailScanner gateways also scan outgoing you can use the watermark feature of MailScanner to help remove this blow-back too.


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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

2009/9/1 Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us<mailto:Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us>>
I'm fighting a lot of joe-job blowback from Russia (still), and have been posting to the spamassassin list for some help.  I enabled/configured the VBounce ruleset but it was suggested to me that I use that as a trigger to quarantine the messages but to not feed them to Bayes, since it could skew the results of legitimate NDRs.  It was suggested that I use procmail to pre-sort the messages.  My MailScanner boxes are just gateways, forwarding to an internal Exchange server and doesn't have any local mailboxes so I don't think procmail is the right tool.  (If I'm wrong let me know.)

I have a custom rule that examines the headers for .ru and ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE which comes from the VBounce ruleset.  How to I tell MailScanner and/or spamassassin not to feed those messages to Bayes but still block them?  Or can I even do that?

Thanks much...

...Kevin
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