Hello Gordon, Tuesday, December 30, 2003, 1:20:30 AM, you wrote:
GR> (1) If I want to add new rules, such as Jennifer's "Popcorn" etc rules that GR> someone kindly pointed me to, should I put them into my GR> .spamassassin/user_prefs file? (I am not root). Is there an "include" GR> mechanism for this file so that I can keep the sets of rules separate? Yes, if you don't have root privs to add *.cf files to the spam assassin install, then you need to add them into your user_prefs file. No, there isn't an include. My user_prefs file currently runs 841K in size, and within that file I have (in order): * control parameters (eg: required_hits) * distribution score adjustments * ToCc header rules * From header rules * Subject header rules * Other header rules * body phrase rules * body word rules * body email address rules * body letter/character rules * rawbody rules * URI rules * Popcorn, backhair, weeds * Fred's white text rules * Fred's Obfu rules * A collection of Emporium rules * Matt's Useless Rules * CAB's vocabulary assignment rules * Virus and Bounce management rules * Personal blacklists and whitelists * Stearns' blacklists (including those I have recently identified and not yet submitted) * Most recent rules still in test/evaluation mode Note: Most people limited to user_prefs cannot create their own rules in the user_prefs file. Well, they/we can, but the rules will be ignored by Spam Assassin -- default setup is to ignore rules defined in user_prefs. I had to build an entire back-end to SA to get my user_prefs rules to take effect. GR> Related question: obviously the "From" field is easy to forge.. can I use IP GR> ranges for whitelists instead of names? I don't think so. I've begun using Received header rules to give spam scores to specific ranges of IP addresses, but I think the whitelist capability is too limited to allow this. Bob Menschel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
