Spam Ruleset

[Andrew Chester]

mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info wrote on 2010/02/02 03:48:30 
PM:

> On 02/02/2010 11:59, Andrew Chester wrote:
> > Hi There
> >
> > We are using MailScanner as part of a mail gateway for incoming mail, 
> > and I would like to set up a ruleset on what to do when MailScanner 
> > finds spam - I want it to deliver the mail to certain domains, and 
> > bounce the rest, I've had a look at the examples in the rules 
> > directory, and from that I've set up the following in 
> > %rules-dir%/spam.actions.rules:
> >
> > To: *@domain.com     deliver
> > FromOrTo: default       bounce
> That's a terrible idea, but other people have told you that already.

Ye, I fixed that to forward to a mail-in database, instead.
> >
> > Is that correct, do I need to include any other lines into the 
> > ruleset, or can I leave it with only the two lines above?
> >
> > I then set the "Spam Actions =" field in MailScanner.conf to the 
> > following:
> > Spam Actions = %rules-dir%/spam.actions.rules
> >
> > Is that correct? 
> Yes. Provided you have set %rules-dir% at the top of MailScanner.conf 
> correctly.
Ok, I have the rules-dir set correctly, so I'll give it a try - thanks for 
the help!

Andrew
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