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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Kim <ju...@mezine.com> on 2007/07/27 20:42:57 UTC

How to manage spam scores?

Hello Everyone,

I am using amavisd-new which uses spamassassin with postfix+mysql setup.

Amavisd-new is scanning messages and is reinjecting messages to postfix
through smtp.

I would like to know how can I manage spam scores so that certain domain
like yahoo.com gets lower score.

My user requested that there are false positive when it is sent from
specific yahoo.com account.

Please help!

Justin

Re: How to manage spam scores?

Posted by Jerry Durand <jd...@interstellar.com>.
On Jul 29, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> Then, user can do "whitelist_from_rcvd user@yahoo.com yahoo.com",  
> which is a
> bit safer than pure whitelisting of from address. Unluckily, yahoo  
> seems not
> to run SPF, which would make such whitelist even more safer.

I was thinking that yahoo.com was already whitelisted by SpamAssassin  
but all I found was:

60_whitelist.cf
def_whitelist_from_rcvd  *@yahoo-inc.com                        yahoo- 
inc.com
def_whitelist_from_rcvd  *@yahoo-inc.com                         
yahoo.com

Shouldn't the second line leave out the "-inc" part to whitelist Y!  ?

This copy of the cf file is from /var/mail/spamassassin/3.002002/ 
updates_spamassassin_org

Re: How to manage spam scores?

Posted by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>.
On 27.07.07 11:42, Justin Kim wrote:
> I am using amavisd-new which uses spamassassin with postfix+mysql setup.
> 
> Amavisd-new is scanning messages and is reinjecting messages to postfix
> through smtp.
> 
> I would like to know how can I manage spam scores so that certain domain
> like yahoo.com gets lower score.
> 
> My user requested that there are false positive when it is sent from
> specific yahoo.com account.

if that's from "specific" yahoo account, then probably owner of the accoune
does something wrong. I'd look at the score to inspect the problem itself.

Then, user can do "whitelist_from_rcvd user@yahoo.com yahoo.com", which is a
bit safer than pure whitelisting of from address. Unluckily, yahoo seems not
to run SPF, which would make such whitelist even more safer.

Or maybe the user from "specific" account is sending from different servers
than yahoo's, which may cause the problem (if those are listed in RBL's)
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Re: How to manage spam scores?

Posted by Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>.
whitelist_from    specific@example.com

where example is of course yahoo

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Justin Kim 
  To: Spamassassin-user 
  Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:42 PM
  Subject: How to manage spam scores?


  Hello Everyone,

  I am using amavisd-new which uses spamassassin with postfix+mysql setup.

  Amavisd-new is scanning messages and is reinjecting messages to postfix through smtp.

  I would like to know how can I manage spam scores so that certain domain like yahoo.com gets lower score.

  My user requested that there are false positive when it is sent from specific yahoo.com account.

  Please help!

  Justin