thanks for your help, i'm trying to get filters working now, and thanks for list subjects. bbxrider
Kris Deugau wrote: > > bbxrider wrote: >> yes, but.......................... >> i have a spam filter on my client, spambayes, and it works fine to sort >> out >> spam sent >> to a 'real' account >> the problem here is numbers, the spammer is spoofing my domain with a >> constantly changing >> name (but with a constant piece of it) with dozens if not hundreds a >> day, >> are coming back to my domain pop3 with invalid address messages, i don't >> want to deal with those and besides its further clogging the pipes with >> messages being sent to me that are unnecessary, so my hunt continues to >> determine a way >> to have spam assassin handle it at my pop3, sitelutions.com, since they >> don't seem to have >> another way to handle it. >> thanks bbxrider > > You might want to lean on your provider a little to allow you to > *disable* the catchall email processing; that's a big part of your > problem. > > That said, a quick and dirty method to brute-force SA into doing > something it's really not designed for could look like this: > > header TO_VALID ToCC =~ /(good1|good2|good3)[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > describe TO_VALID My valid accounts > score TO_VALID -5 > > header TO_INVALID ToCC =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > describe TO_INVALID Everything is bad, unless it's good > score TO_INVALID 5 > > Adjust efficiency, accuracy, score levels to taste. > > This type of "identify the real valid accounts" processing belongs in > the MTA or at least whatever hands off processing to SA - if you've got > access to procmail, for instance, you can set up a fairly simple recipe > to only deliver mail addressed to a valid account at your domain. > > Note that you'll have to create exceptions for things like, oh, say, > this list, because such messages are usually sent "to" the list, not > your account. This applies to pretty much any method not working at the > MTA level. > > -kgd > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/use-of-*-and---in-blacklist_from-tf3874156.html#a11017078 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
