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

["John D. Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Siddall wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

When I Block domains or IPs, they are denied.  That is what I want the
Spam program to do is Deny - which bounces back to the server sending. 
The manual blocking works but it takes too much time.

I will look into the programs that were referenced in the other
responses too.

Thanks

John