How to reject all emails by spamassassin

[sadique]

Hello Folks,

What would happen if I specify a domain or ip address in both blacklist_from and whitelist_from field of spamassassin. Tagged as spam or not? I want to to receive emails only from some domains and reject all other emails. Can this be done by blacklisting all and whitelisting the required domains?

Thanks

[wzd]

By adding lines such as:

blacklist_from sde@spledee.com
blacklist_from *@bonanzaoffers.com
blacklist_from *@deal-seeker.com
blacklist_from *@hispeedmediaoffers.com
blacklist_from *@jumpjive.com
blacklist_from *@*.ew01.com

to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf or ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs , you tell spamassassin that mail from any of these domains gets a +100 spam score, effectively blocking them.

Then try whitelisting a specific domain?

Otherwise if you are concerned about spam why not check out this black list:

http://www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/

MORE:

The following procmail script will delete mail with a score of 15 or higher. By moving the # (comment) mark up one line, it will save all mail with a score of 15 or higher in a separate folder rather than deleting. The general implementation then, is that mail with a score of less than 5 goes into the inbox, a client side rule triggering on "X-Spam-Status: YES" will cause mail scoring between 5 and 15 to go into a Junk Mail folder where it can regularly be checked, and mail of 15 or higher will be stored on the server or dropped on the floor.

Uncomment the following 3 lines and use tail -f procmail.log to debug
#LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
#VERBOSE=yes
#LOGABSTRACT=all

# Send all mail through SpamAssassin

:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamassassin


# Mail that is very likely spam (>15) can be dropped on the floor.
# Move the # up one line to save it on the server instead.
# Note that dropping mail on the floor is a *bad*
# idea unless you really, really believe no false positives will
# have a score greater than 15.

:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null
#almost-certainly-spam

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/...lToForwardMail

Read that for more information :-)

I am not certain what will happen if you blacklist *@* and whitelist a certain *@domain.com but give it a go. In order to delete the emails you will use the above and provide all blacklisted emails with a score say above 15 or 100 and then use that procmail script.

Let me know how it goes,

[sulca]

you tell spamassassin that mail from any of these domains gets a +100 spam score, effectively blocking them.

Hello,

I have a similiar question: I want to whitelist a whole domain and blacklist certain specific users from that domain. The whitelist rule give -100.. according to your reply blacklisting gives +100.

This would leave the score of the bad email around 0... thus allowing it to pass (my SA score is 1).

I am a user, I do not know how to create rules. I do know that in the Configure SA options there is a section that allows you to overwrite scores but I do not know the name of the rule associated to the blacklist so I can set it to +200 for example.


Oh and why don't my blacklisted emails get filtered through as normal spam into my spam-catching-account? They just dissapear or sometimes send error messages.


Thanks in advance!

[sulca]

Ok I found out how to do this with an account in cP 10

score USER_IN_BLACKLIST ###

Works great!

For some reason it doesn't work the same in cP 11. I suspect that the rule is called differently. Any ideas?