Hello, All,
I have a situation that I was hoping to get some feedback on.  We have an
e-mail user who is using our spam filtering service.  They have a domain
name setup with an outside e-mail hosting provider and all of the e-mail
that is sent to that domain name gets forwarded over to his account that is
hosted with us.  Because of this forwarding all domains which are defined in
our "spam domains" list get flagged as coming from the wrong mail server and
weight is added on to the message pushing it over the "hold weight" even
though if the message would've been delivered directly to us it would've
been fine.  (See below involving MINDSPRING.COM)

Unless there's a more better way to to do this involving a different type of
test, and please tell me if there is, I would like to create a FILTER that
looks for a certain string and subtracts a few points based on that string.
So far my the sum total of my experience with filter is using MAILFROM as my
"location" in the filter.  Based on the header information below, what would
be the best "location" to use in my filter and what would be the best string
to search for in that location?  Are BODY, HEADERS, HELO, MAILFROM,
REMOTEIP, REVDNS, ALLRECIPS and SUBJECT the only locations available for use
in a filter?  Since I'm basically making this exception for just one
situation (unless others come up later) I would like to use the solution
that adds the last amount of additional overhead to the spam-filtering
system.

Thanks For Your Feedback!
Dan Geiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]

P.S.: Some Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Innocent

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