>I was wondering if somebody could answer a question I have >about SA's use of external blacklists which filter e-mail >addresses.
SpamAssassin does not filter. It rates and optionally provides a tagged copy of a message. You chose software to do the filtering. >As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), SA can >be configured to look up lists such as those held on >rfc-ignorant.org, match the email address and award points >accordingly. Blacklists are for IP addresses, I'm not aware of any that work on email addresses. >If only a fragment of the address is listed on the >blacklist, will SA still add points to the e-mail? eg. >'.de' is marked on rfc-ignorant.org as having a duff WHOIS >listing. Will SA award points for any e-mail from Germany? Blacklists work on the full IP address of a computer. ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
