A bit of an oversight – old versions of Spamassassin have an inbuilt rule to block emails with a future date. Not a bad idea really, but the rule starts blocking things from 2010! The rule should be fixed in newer versions, however Plesk for example uses a fairly old version. You can edit the [...]
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Test an email against Spamassassin
December 21st, 2009
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To run an email through spamassassin to test how “spamlike” it is, put email+ headers in file: cat file | spamassassin -t
Creating custom Spamassassin rules
December 21st, 2009
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example: body Job_Scam_Rule /craftmediadepartment|LOUWILLE ENGINEERING|ABLE TEXTILE DEPARTMENT/ describe Job_Scam_Rule “Spam is not allowed” score Job_Scam_Rule 2000 2000 2000 2000 or header LOCAL_ED_SUBJECT Subject =~ /\bED\b/ score LOCAL_ED_SUBJECT 40 needs to go in the users user_prefs file if allow_user_rules is enabled in local.cf. Otherwise can be done on a serverwide basis in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf or similar manual: [...]
