Joanne, Thanks for info, yeah saw the variables I could make substitutions on and will probably do that once I get it up and running so I can make better rules, but I am just trying to get it running right now.
For my tests, I am just trying to get it to work. I was sending emails to myself from work to home accounts with the proper stuff to set off the rules, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be catching it(and rewritting the subjects). For example I sent an email with a subject TEST and in the body SPAM. I would expect to receive the email at my home email account with the subject line rewritten, but it's not happening. The hosting provider won't give me any help, thus turning to the list. Once I get it working I will starting writing more unique rules to try and filter out all the truly junk mail I get. Verizon has already shut off my emails once, because I have about 23 public emails accounts forward to a single account, thus really need to try and start cleaning it up. On the CPANEL, it says it's enabled and that's about he only status I seem to be able to check. It does have a "configuration" button which brings up a form, where I can see that my local rules are set (from my user_prefs file). So it seems to be at least reading that. Not sure which version we are running, but I sent a request into the Hosting provider to get that information along with any other configuration information he can give me since he will not help me. So I can only think, that one it is not parsing Alias/forward emails? Or something else is wrong. Again any help in getting this running is greatly appreciated! Thanks all. -----Original Message----- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:49 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Filtering Aliases/Forwarders Joseph, may I make a slight suggestion for you? For the rewrite try something about the same size that makes eyeball filtering ham out of the spam folder much easier: rewrite_header subject * Rated SPAM: _SCORE(00) * Then the header subject will start with something like this: "* Rated SPAM: 019.8 *". It'll be followed by the original subject, of course. You filter to spam if "* Rated SPAM:" is seen. And you can sort by subject to bring the low scores to the top. And for demonstration or test rules I'd use low scores unless you specifically wanted to see a hit. Then I'd search for something gibberish in the text. Hm, actually I wonder if "gibberish" itself would be a safe rule for testing. It almost never appears in normal mail and spammers USUALLY are averse to calling their mail gibberish. So.... {^_-} The scores I use run for rule testing are in the 0.001 to 0.1 range. Once the look good I give them real scores. {^_^} Joanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "DuBois, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well met, Just activated SpamAssassin on my website (by my web hosting provider) and wanted to do some simple tests which I read from the Wiki site and FAQ. When it didn't run I opened a ticket with my provider and he said he didn't support it and I needed to find help else where. So here I am. Right now, I'm just trying some simple tests to get my Aliases/Forwarders (which get sent through my site) and forwarded onto my ISP providers email account. i.e. a public email [EMAIL PROTECTED] would get forwarded onto my local isp provider at verizon, or comcast depending on who I have for a particular month, so that way I don't have to change my email every month. So for my test, I set up the following basic local rules in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. I assume this would take any email with the word spam in the BODY or test in SUBJECT and rewrite the SUBJECT with the new HEADER. But for some reason it does not appear to be working. body LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_RULE /spam/ score LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_RULE 6.0 describe LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_RULE This is a simple test rule header LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_SUBJECT Subject =~ /\btest\b/i score LOCAL_DEMONSTRATION_SUBJECT 2 required_score 5 rewrite_header subject * Rated SPAM: Junk This! * Does it not work for Aliases/Forwarders? Do you have to have a special Client? I am using BAT by RitLABs, and/or Webbrowser. Thanks! Joseph DuBois, Lead Application Specialist Application Standards & Specialty Projects Children's Hospital Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
