On 12/20/2004 08:24 pm, Paul L. Allen wrote:
However, if you dspam remains too difficult for you, then three things:
1) Spamcop-URI (this functionality is included in SA 3.0) will catch
bad URLs in the mail. It takes some hours for a new URL to be added,
so spammers get new URLs every day or two, but it catches a lot of spam.
I will see if I can upgrade Spamassassin without breaking anything else.
2) Use an RBL (at MTA or Spamassassin level) that blocks dynamic IPs.
Almost nobody on dynamic IP runs a legitimate mail server (Softflare has
a few customers that do) and most spam comes from zombie home computers
that are on dial-up or adsl/cable with long dhcp leases and are classed
by RBLs as dynamic (technically there is no reason why these shouldn't
be static but ISPs can charge more for a fixed IP if the standard product
uses dhcp).
3) Spamassassin rule (in local.cfg or any other .cfg file):
describe YOUR_RULE_NAME No Subject
header YOUR_RULE_NAME Subject !~ /\S/
score YOUR_RULE_NAME 6.0
Adjust the score according to whether you want to definitely block all of
these or want it to come close to your trigger level so that any other
rules triggering will take it over.
I will see if I can do this with my setup, I have not tried it since I
installed MailScanner.
thanks for the advice.
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