RE: [vps-mail] Editable .procmailrc or blacklist

[Matt Cohen <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The reason that's not available is becuase blacklist_from is a valid 
command in SA, but there is no such blacklist_subject command - you 
have to do it manually.

here's an example of giving 5 points to anything with the word 
pharmacy in the subject, regardless of case:

header DRUG_SUBJ       Subject =~ /Pharmacy/i
describe DRUG_SUBJ      the word Pharmacy in Subject
score DRUG_SUBJ         5.0

so if you give your client access to their user_prefs file, they 
could write this in there themselves.  Thy just have to change the 
'DRUG_SUBJ' and word in the "/" to make new rules.

Matt


At 1:00 PM -0400 4/4/04, Jim Smith said something about:
> Thanks for the response, Tim. What I was looking for in the iManager wasn't
> the SA scoring but a straight blacklist entry. In other words, can the
> client do something like click "View/Edit Mail Filters", click "Edit
> blacklist", put in  "blacklist_subject *pharmacy" in the blacklist box and
> it will trash all incoming emails with the word pharmacy in the subject?
>
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tim
> >  Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:39 AM
> >  To: Blarneystone Maillists
> >  Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Editable .procmailrc or blacklist
> >
> >  Hello Blarneystone,
> >
> >  Does your client has ftp access to his own home drive? If so
> >  he can easily upload a .procmailrc that will only affect his
> >  own email. This way there is not really any security issue at all.
> >  I would only suggest that the first few lines in the rc file
> >  are to create a backup of all email processed until he/you
> >  are confident the email is properly processed and not lost
> >  along the way.
> >
> >  but yes you can get spamassassin to score on specific items
> >  in the subject list. you may have to create new rules, and
> >  have these rules score very high for it to be tagged as spam.
> >  You can have a look at some custom rule sets here
> >  http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets
> >
> >  all the best,
> >  tim.
> >
> >  Sunday, April 4, 2004, 3:36:18 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >  BM> I have a client on a shared vps2 wanting to blacklist his
> >  email by subject.
> >  BM> I know the SA filter via iManager filters by
> >  blacklist_from and _to
> >  BM> but can it do anything like blacklist_subject? If not, is
> >  there an
> >  BM> easy way for an end user to edit their .procmailrc file without
> >  BM> breaching security for other areas? He isn't a novice user so I'm
> >  BM> not worried about him messing up his .procmailrc file but
> >  since my
> >  BM> clients usually don't want to do things like that
> >  themselves, I've never bothered figuring out whether that is
> >  an option.
> >
> >  BM> Alternative suggestions are welcome as well.
> >
> >  BM> Regards,
> >
> >  BM> Jim Smith
> >
> >  BM>  --------------------------------------------------------
> >  BM>            Jim Smith, Blarneystone, LLC.
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