Question about rejecting email

[David Jourard]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

 

I created a file called spam.blacklist.rules 

 

I added a rule like so just to test it out

 

From: exampleemail98234 at gmail.com and To: *@myemailaddress.com     yes

 

I updated the MailScanner.conf file setting the 

Is Definitely Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.blacklist.rules

 

I then sent an email from my gmail account to a specific address which is
mine to see if it would indicate that it was spam.

 

It came in and not marked.

 

The thing is I actually want it to reject it or delete it but when I set
delete as the value in the rules file I get an error message from
MailScanner.

 

  Syntax error in line 1 of ruleset file
/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.blacklist.rules at
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 2444

 

Thanks for any help.  BTW the MTA is postfix

 

Thanks

David j.

 

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin
Hepworth
Sent: February 4, 2011 5:48 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Question about rejecting email

 

Depends on the MTA for a reject..


you can create a rule in MailScanner.conf against "Is Definitely spam" so
emails get discarded if to customer and from badperson - you can also
overload these rules quite nicely (search on the wiki for overload)

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK



On 3 February 2011 21:27, David Jourard <davidj at bytesinteractive.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have mailscanner running for a while and haven't work with it for awhile.

Today a customer asked me to reject email for his email address coming from
email that ends in somename at somedomain.xx  where xx is a particular county
he is getting a lot of spam.

Could someone guide me on how to create a ruleset for this request.

Thank-you
David J.




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