On 13 Mar 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > 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> >
But, as I said originally, I can't whitelist an address because this varies; the only constant is the Subject line. And I can't find any useful information about how to change scores, etc. I'd thought of the kludge suggested by Shri Shrikumar myself, but hoped there might be a more elegant way of doing it. AC -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
