Why don't you put e-mail addresses you rend/reply mail to on the
whitelist? That's what the autowhitelisting feature is for.
Martin
On 10/23/2016 09:16 PM, jay wrote:
> Esteemed Colleagues:
>
> I have a recurring problem with ASSP: it discards important incoming
> mail that contains the word "cheap". For example, if a client needs
> me to fly somewhere in an emergency, and I reply, "where can I get a
> cheap airplane ticket?" or words to that effect, and the client
> replies to my mail, including my mail in his reply, the reply is apt
> to be discarded because it contains the word "cheap", thus:
>
> 16-10-20.maillog.txt:2016-10-20 21:39:09 m1-17548-06726 [Worker_1]
> 209.85.220.170 <...@gmail.com> to: j...@m5.chicago.il.us Regex:BombRe 'PB 20:
> for cheap'
> 16-10-20.maillog.txt:2016-10-20 21:39:09 m1-17548-06726 [Worker_1] [bombRe]
> 209.85.220.170 <...@gmail.com> to: j...@m5.chicago.il.us (bombRe 'cheap')
> 16-10-20.maillog.txt:2016-10-20 21:39:09 m1-17548-06726 [Worker_1]
> 209.85.220.170 <...@gmail.com> to: j...@m5.chicago.il.us Message-Score: added
> 20 for Regex:BombRe 'PB 20: for cheap' bombRe: 'cheap', total score for this
> message is now 21
> 16-10-20.maillog.txt:2016-10-20 21:39:09 m1-17548-06726 [Worker_1] [bombRe]
> 209.85.220.170 <...@gmail.com> to: j...@m5.chicago.il.us [spam found]
> (Regex:BombRe 'PB 20: for cheap' bombRe: 'cheap') [{redacted}] ->
> /opt/assp/discarded/6726--6440.eml;
> 16-10-20.maillog.txt:2016-10-20 21:39:09 m1-17548-06726 [Worker_1]
> 209.85.220.170 <...@gmail.com> to: j...@m5.chicago.il.us [SMTP Error] 554
> 5.7.1 Delivery not authorized, message refused -- . (reason: Regex:BombRe 'PB
> 20: for cheap' bombRe: 'cheap')
>
> Now, bombRe is a good idea, I suppose, but I should be able to control
> it. How do I do that? The word "cheap" does not appear anywhere in
> assp.cfg. In files/bombre.txt it appears only as "subject\: cheapest"
> and that would not cause mail to be discarded that contains "cheap"
> somewhere in its body. CHEAP (all capitals) also appears in
> files/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt but that too, if I am not mistaken, would
> not cause mail to be discarded that contains "cheap" somewhere in its
> body. It also appears several places in files/optRE/blackListedDomains.txt
> -- e.g., "(?:quick)?usa|platform|cheap|now|2u)\.biz" -- but that too,
> if I am not mistaken, would not cause mail to be discarded that
> contains "cheap" somewhere in its body.
>
> It is possible, I suppose, that there is some utterly cryptic regular
> expression in some file that matches "cheap" without actually
> containing the string "cheap", but that would be utterly perverse and
> I refuse to believe that the universe is that malicious. And yet, my
> e-mails are unquestionably being discarded. How do I forever prevent
> that from happening?
>
> Thank you in advance for any and all replies. One more thing -- if
> you do reply, please replace the word "cheap" with the word
> "tangerine", otherwise your reply to me is apt to be discarded. Thank
> you again.
>
>
> Jay F. Shachter
> 6424 N Whipple St
> Chicago IL 60645-4111
> (1-773)7613784 landline
> (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice
> j...@m5.chicago.il.us
> http://m5.chicago.il.us
>
> "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur"
>
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