> I realise that it is not an intelligent thing to block mail where the
> 'To' field doesn't mention my domain name (mailinglists etc).
Actually, I've found that to be a VERY intelligent and effective thing to
filter on, and I was rather surprised to find that our beloved Assassin
doesn't do that by default.
So I wrote my own rule to do the check (listed below). I give my rule a
score of 3. It should probably be higher, but I find that's enough to tip
most otherwise-stealthy spam over the threshold.
This rule has never given me a false positive outside of mailing lists,
and I explicitly whitelist all of the mailing lists I *want* to be
subscribed to in my user.prefs. Besides, 3 isn't enough to blacklist it
all by itself, and AWL usually takes care of the rest. And it hits on
something like half the spam I do get.
Obviously, you'll want to change the argument to something more
appropriate to your own address. :-)
Is there a reliable way for SpamAssassin to determine my actual user ID?
If so, I think something like the following would make a useful addition
to the regular install--but then, I'm just a newbie around here. :-)
In EvalTests.pm, I added:
sub not_to_or_cc {
my ($self, $pattern) = @_;
local ($_);
foreach $_ ($self->{main}->find_all_addrs_in_line
($self->get ('To') . $self->get ('Cc')))
{
return 0 if ($_ =~ /$pattern/i);
}
return 1;
}
And in my user_prefs:
header NOT_TO_OR_CC_DANT eval:not_to_or_cc('dant')
describe NOT_TO_OR_CC_DANT Not To: or Cc: me
score NOT_TO_OR_CC_DANT 3.0
--
Big Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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