How do I block and not deliver Blacklisted emails?

[Martin Hepworth]

look at the High Scoring Spam Actions settings

https://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#High%20Scoring%20Spam%20Actions

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Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK


On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 18:38, Kevin Miller via MailScanner <
mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> wrote:

> Block that at the MTA level.  I.e., reject them in postfix, sendmail,
> exim, or whatever you use.  No point in accepting the mail and wasting CPU
> cycles passing it to MailScanner if it's in a blacklisted TLD.
>
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller
> Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
> 155 South Seward Street
> Juneau, Alaska 99801
> Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4588 Registered Linux User No: 307357
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner <mailscanner-bounces+kevin.miller=
> juneau.org at lists.mailscanner.info> On Behalf Of Hedley Phillips
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 3:23 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: How do I block and not deliver Blacklisted emails?
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> Hi,
>
> I'm blacklisting a few .tld's that are known sources of spam and currently
> blacklisted emails are being delivered as High Scoring spam as per these two
> settings:
>
> Is Definitely Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.blacklist.rules
>
> Spam Blacklist:
> Make this point to a ruleset, and anything in that ruleset whose value is
> "yes" will *always* be marked as spam. This value can be over-ridden by the
> "Is Definitely Not Spam" setting. This can also be the filename of a
> ruleset.
>
> Definite Spam Is High Scoring = yes
> Setting this to yes means that spam found in the blacklist is treated as
> "High Scoring Spam" in the "Spam Actions" section below. Setting it to no
> means that it will be treated as "normal" spam. This can also be the
> filename of a ruleset.
>
> I have a customer who has set High Scoring Spam to be delivered to their
> spam account as they don't want High Scoring spam to be deleted but also
> doesn't want to receive any blacklisted tld's.
>
> Is there a way to block blacklisted emails without marking them as High
> Scoring spam and delivering them?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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