Re: [vps-mail] Feedback requested - filter on [hormel luncheon meat] in subject?

[Matt Cohen <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:20 AM +0100 12/7/05, Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet said something about:
> When I reached 300 spams a day, I introduced a spam/virus filtering 
> which labels everything suspect as {spam} in my subject line before 
> delivery to my own server. Anything with spam in the subject line 
> (not on my client whitelist) gets trashed by procmailrc. Last count 
> this was 800 a day.
>
> Anyone not on my whitelist sending me a business email which 
> seriously looks like spam gets lost - but do I need such a customer?

I understand what you're saying, but is your whitelist in SA or in 
Procmail?  If in SA, then a procmail that filters based on {spam} 
will knock out folks who are on your SA whitelist, correct?

Matt


> Andy
>
>
>
> At 09:04 PM 12/6/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>
> > I'm getting spam that is sent out and has [spam] in the subject 
> > line. I know that there were some state laws that specified spam 
> > had to be labeled as such, but since those were all stricken when 
> > (now you) CAN-SPAM was enacted, I'm not sure what the deal with 
> > these are.
> >
> > Normally I'd add a rule to SA to add 50 points to a [spam] labeled 
> > email, but i've seen it happen where my email was labeled as spam 
> > by a recipient's server, and that put a [spam] in the subject line, 
> > and then they responded to my (tagged) email.  Had I enacted that 
> > +50 point rule, I'd never have gotten that email.
> >
> > So my question: Do any of you have filters that filter out [spam] 
> > in the subject line (i've not used it here just incase someone 
> > does)?  I don't get too much spam that way - maybe 4-8 a day, but 
> > if it starts getting bad, this could be a problem...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
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