On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:09:18PM +0200, Bram Mertens is rumored to have said:
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:10, Steve Thomas wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:40:13PM -0600, Hardt, Jon is rumored to have 
> > said:
> > > 
> > > I just want to allow any mail with a particular subject line string 
> > > through
> > > SA regardless of SA score.
> > 
> > In your local.cf:
> > 
> > header   MY_CUSTOM_RULE   Subject =~ /the subject/i
> > describe MY_CUSTOM_RULE   This mail should never be flagged as spam
> > score    MY_CUSTOM_RULE   -100
> > 
> > 
> > Check out the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf. There's a wealth of 
> > info there.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to grep the rules and find out which rule triggers
> on this subject and disable that rule?
> 
> To disable a rule simply add
> score RULE_TO_BE_DISABLED 0.00
> to your local.cf

You're reducing the effectiveness of SA by doing that, though. You also run the 
risk of some other feature of the wanted e-mails causing a false positive.

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