On Monday 18 March 2002 10:22 am, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote: > I am very pleased with SA and the job it is doing. Good job to all! > > But...In my situation if SA makes a false positive it is often on mailing > list type emails. Perhaps a user has suscribed to a joke of the day or > some hobby list, etc... Has anyone developed any custom rules what would > give -ve scores to messages that look like lists? Perhaps some > characteristics typical of list emails? I do realize that this is very > difficult since many list messages are very Spammy looking. Also, many > Spam messages have the appearance of being from an opt-in list. ARGHHH!
Here's some rules that I have for lists: # Only look for 7 bit chars between square brackets, because a lot # of spam with 8 bit chars in the subject would match this rule header ELIST_1 Subject =~ /^.{0,6}\[[\000-\177]{2,20}\]/ describe ELIST_1 Subject has something between square brackets header ELIST_2 List-Unsubscribe =~ /./ describe ELIST_2 List-Unsubscribe field exists header ELIST_3 X-Original-Date =~ /./ describe ELIST_3 X-Original-Date field exists header ELIST_4 Errors-To =~ /./ describe ELIST_4 Errors-To field exists header ELIST_5 Precedence =~ /bulk/i describe ELIST_5 Prescendce is bulk header ELIST_6 Mailing-List =~ /./ describe ELIST_6 Mailing List field exists header ELIST_7 ALL =~ /(?:noreply|nobody)\@(?!localhost)/i describe ELIST_7 Reply to nodoby/noreply score ELIST_1 -1.0 score ELIST_2 -1.0 score ELIST_3 -1.0 score ELIST_4 -1.0 score ELIST_5 -1.0 score ELIST_6 -1.0 score ELIST_7 -1.0 -- Visit http://dmoz.org, the world's | Give a man a match, and he'll be warm largest human edited web directory. | for a minute, but set him on fire, and | he'll be warm for the rest of his life. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 132152059 | _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk