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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550: Need Spam Filter advice



John D. Gorena wrote:
I need help fighting spam and I want to install an Anti-Spam program on
the Raq550.  I need a program that will deny emails - not just filter
them to a dump account.  I want to filter by the link that is embedded
in the email too - not just the text.  Many of these spam messages come
from many different IPs and I have manually blocked hundreds.  They do
seem to link to the same few websites.  It is these emails that I want
to deny so that they get the messages back.

Any programs that will allow me to do this?

John


John,

You can do this fairly easily using MailScanner plus SpamAssassin.

Set MailScanner's "High Scoring Spam Actions" in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf to "bounce", and define new URI tests for SpamAssassin that will match the spamvertized web sites you're trying to block. Set the corresponding scores for the URI tests to high values to ensure MailScanner will see the messages as high-scoring spam.

Of course, bouncing the messages won't do any good; it will probably result in you getting a lot of bounces back. When you get tired of them, just change the high-scoring spam action to "delete."

Also note this will result in legitimate mail containing the URIs (complaints from friends, news articles about spam) getting marked as spam and bounced.

Regards,

	Richard.