on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated: > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a > > subject line: WWW Submission. > > > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to > > tell it that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter > > addresses, not subjects, and the address at the head of these > > forms is variable. > > If you use procmail, you could filter these into the inbox or > another folder before executing the spamassin recipe
but the whole point of procmail is that it filters everything into different mailboxes, and the whole point of spamassassin is that it checks *all* your mail to see if it's spam -- do you really want to have it go through all mailboxes except for one, or to have to pipe it twice to procmail (the first time to filter off the non-spam, the second to filter the tagged spam into /dev/null or something)? a much cleaner hack (and indeed, what it seems spamassassin intends for you to do) would be to add whitelist_from lines into your ~/.spamassassin.cf file, so: # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are *not* patterns; they're just # normal # strings. one exception is that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is allowed. They should # be # in lower-case. # # whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] &c. you can also change scoring and add your own rules in /etc/spamassassin.cf man spamsassin (see "configuration files") for more info. hth, </nori> -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html --
