Let's see if I am on the right track... or am I placing these commands in the wrong files???
Could I add the following to /usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf: full RAPE /rape/i describe RAPE contains rape Then add the following to /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf: score RAPE 4.125 Matt Kettler wrote: > In general the rules for SA are simple perl regexp format. You can also > create functions and make them a rule, but I've not done that myself yet. > > You can add your rules to {HOME}/.spamassassin/user_prefs to add rules > on a per-user basis (if your SA gets run as different users) or > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf for a site-wide set. > > copy-pasting from a previous post I made about writing rules: > > If you have SA installed on your system man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf. > There's also a copy of this info at > > http://spamassassin.taint.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html > > In general your own rules are of the format > > body TEST_NAME <some regexp to match> > describe TEST_NAME <some message to include in report> > score TEST_NAME <some score to apply> > > instead of body you can also do header, rawbody and full to check the > message in different places or different stages of decoding. > > > Here's a simple rule: > > body SPAMASSASSIN_MENTIONED /\bSpamAssassin/i > describe SPAMASSASSIN_MENTIONED mentions SpamAssassin in body > score SPAMASSASSIN_MENTIONED -5.0 > > > This will search the decoded message body text and match any word-break > (ie space, tab, newline, etc) followed by "spamassassin" in a case > insensitive manner. Any message matching the rule gets 5 points knocked > off it's score. (I use this rule to help off-list discussions of SA from > being tagged as spam) > > You can also go to /usr/share/spamassassin and look at the various stock > rules for some ideas on formatting, syntax, etc. The stock ruleset is > split up into body rules, header rules, and scores all in separate > files, but local rules are generally all lumped together like above. I > think the only significant advantage of having the scores in a separate > file is if you're going to run the GA over a corpus on them, but that's > a little more advanced than most mail admins want to get into (myself > included). > > > > > At 12:58 PM 7/22/2002 -0500, Joel Epstein wrote: > >> Hey all... >> >> How exactly do you create rules? I ask because I seem to be getting >> tons of email containing words like incest, etc.... >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks >> -- >> ================================= >> Joel Epstein >> Manager of Systems Integration >> Integrated Warehousing Solutions >> 3075 Highland Parkway Suite 715 >> Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 >> Phone: 630.932.4300 >> Fax: 630.932.7652 >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> Welcome to geek heaven. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> _______________________________________________ >> Spamassassin-talk mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- ================================= Joel Epstein Manager of Systems Integration Integrated Warehousing Solutions 3075 Highland Parkway Suite 715 Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 Phone: 630.932.4300 Fax: 630.932.7652 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk