At 11:27 28/02/03 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:01, Gordon Smith wrote:
It is possible to set SpamAssassin up so that users can control their own spam filters. This does require a reasonable amount of coding to get it to work.
I believe that Steve Phillips was working on something like this a while ago. Getting something like that working in conjunction with RBL queries on a per-user level would be great for allowing the customers more control over their mailbox.
This isn't really feasible since the whole point of the RBL is that you dump the session before it sends anything so you don't know who its for.
And thats one of the big problems with plain RBL checks. I suspect whats being refered to here, is the fact that Spamassassin queries several RBL lists as part of its testing. However rather than a match causing the mail session to be rejected before you even know who a message is from or to, matches in various RBL lists add "points" to the spam score towards indicating the message is spam. With enough corroboration the message is regarded as spam. The RBL checks in Spamassassin are a useful part of the set of tests it performs, and like all other spamassassin rules, can be per-user customized. Regards, Simon