I can edit 'user_prefs' and customize scores for existing tests, but when I tried to add custom rules to 'user_prefs' they somehow got ignored. Weird.
Here's the details from a hostmonster http://www.hostmonsterforum.com/showthread.php?t=2364 forum post : > First off, hostmonster does not use the "spamassassin" command to run SA, > they use the server/client spamd/spamc method. Therefore if you want to > duplicate what is happening when you email arrives, you will need to do > this in a shell: > > % spamc < <mail_message> > > If you try to use "spamassassin" from the shell, then things don't quite > work right, namely it won't find the site configuration file AND it will > process your $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs file differently than if you > had run "spamc" > > By default, the spamd daemon does not allow user defined rules. > Hostmonster needs to set "allow_user_rules" to 1 in the system > configuration file. I asked about this and that's something that they will > not do. > Charles Gregory wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, ktn wrote: >> I am also starting to get a lot of these ".rtf attachment only with no >> email body text" spams. Unfortunately, we use hostmonster.com for our >> email so my ability to customize SA is greatly limited (i.e. I cannot >> use custom rules). > > Do you mean that they won't allow 'local.cf' or that > they won't allow 'user_prefs'? I'd be a bit surprised if the latter > were not available.... > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-slew-of-spams-tp23892760p23928476.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
