Re: Spamassassin: how to "whitelist" a subject?
On 13 Mar 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:27:25PM -0800, Shri Shrikumar insinuated:
> > > I get replies from a form on my website; they arrive with a
> > > subject line: WWW Submission.
> > >
> > > These get detected as spam by Spamassassin. Is there any way to
> > > tell it that they are not? Whitelist just seems to filter
> > > addresses, not subjects, and the address at the head of these
> > > forms is variable.
> >
> > If you use procmail, you could filter these into the inbox or
> > another folder before executing the spamassin recipe
>
> but the whole point of procmail is that it filters everything into
> different mailboxes, and the whole point of spamassassin is that it
> checks *all* your mail to see if it's spam -- do you really want to
> have it go through all mailboxes except for one, or to have to pipe it
> twice to procmail (the first time to filter off the non-spam, the
> second to filter the tagged spam into /dev/null or something)? a much
> cleaner hack (and indeed, what it seems spamassassin intends for you
> to do) would be to add whitelist_from lines into your
> ~/.spamassassin.cf file, so:
>
> # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are *not* patterns; they're just
> # normal
> # strings. one exception is that "*@isp.com" is allowed. They should
> # be
> # in lower-case.
> #
> # whitelist_from monty@roscom.com
> whitelist_from wsmith@wordsmith.org
>
> &c.
>
> you can also change scoring and add your own rules in
> /etc/spamassassin.cf man spamsassin (see "configuration files") for
> more info.
>
> hth,
>
> </nori>
>
But, as I said originally, I can't whitelist an address because this
varies; the only constant is the Subject line. And I can't find any
useful information about how to change scores, etc.
I'd thought of the kludge suggested by Shri Shrikumar myself, but hoped
there might be a more elegant way of doing it.
AC
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