On 04/08/2013 05:12 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> [...]
> I want to delete any spam that scores over 10, though. I believe that I
> should insert a new rule between the first and second, and I want to use
> the X-Spam-Level header. But since it uses asterisks, which are
> interpreted as regex wildcards, I want to make sure I've got the right
> syntax. I think I would need to escape out the asterisks, right?
> 
> Would it look like this?
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Level:.*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
> /dev/null
> 
> I believe that would match 10 asterisks or more, and redirect the e-mail
> to /dev/null. Am I right?

I would suggest redirecting such messages to another folder/maildir.
The folder should auto-purge old messages (e.g. older than 30 days).
Shit does happen. I remember at least one case in which mailing list
(ham) thread about spammer scored >10.

Such very false positives are very unlikely/rare *but* nobody
responsible is going to guarantee it will not happen to you.

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