On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > Is there some way to run spamassassin with only a specific set of > rules and scores? > If I'm trying to target specific specific sorts of spam I write rules that sort of follow these guidelines:
- their rule names all start with my initials followed by an underscore. followed by something specific, e.g XXX_FAKE_INVOICE. Any subrules append a number to this name: XXX_FAKE_INVOICE2 - if a subrule will always be part of a more complex rule, i.e. linked in with a meta-rule it will initially be named as described and only, when debugged and working will its name be changed to, say, __XXX_FAKE_INVOICE2 to stop subriule names from cluttering the header area of processed messages. - these rules don't reference any standard rules The result of the above is that it doesn't matter whether other rules also run because I can see exactly which part(s) of my rules are firing and know they won't be affected by any other rules because there are no references to any standard rules or (usually) to my other self-developed rules: naming rules, if done carefully, is as good a way as any to isolate your own rules from the standard rule set and/or any others you've found or been given. I do all rule development on a separate machine, which also has SA installed. This is configured so it only runs when triggered by a shell script. This starts SA, pipes a set of test messages into it, and stops SA when all test messages have been run. SA's output is sent to stdout so it can be inspected using 'less', filtered with grep to only show output from my rules or however else I want to handle it to make it more readable. When I'm happy with a new rules its gets put live by ftping the .cf file containing it to the live machine's repository and restarting the live SA daemon to pick up the new rule(s). Last, but not least, all my private rules are put under version control in a git repository. HTH Martin
