> The main problem with this approach is that it requires monitoring > of the SPAM assassin tests being applied as the software is > updated...
Well, I'd say this is a problem chiefly because whoever _is_ administering the server -- not spamassassin.apache.org -- is clearly not encouraging the use of granular client-side filtering. If filtering on more than the Spam Score were an expectation from end-to-end, you would have a consistently updated list provided to you by your mail admin, through an intranet portal or whatever. It's a virtual certainty that your mail admin is using rules and metas that don't ship with SA. What would you do about those? --Sandy