Firefox and spamassassin

David Hart ubuntu at tonix.org
Fri Nov 10 01:41:14 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:04:06PM -0800, Constantine Evans wrote:
> David Hart wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:06:54AM -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
> >>>
> >> I agree that 0.0 would be too aggressive on the firewall box. It would
> >> just be nice if 0.0 were the tbird threshold.
> > 
> > Can you not filter on the number of asterisks in the X-Spam-Level
> > header field in TBird?
> > 
> > I don't use TBird but, as an example of what I mean, I have the
> > following in my Procmail (~/.procmailrc) config:
> > 
> > 	:0:
> > 	* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
> > 	spam/caught
> > 	:0:
> > 	* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*
> > 	spam/probably
> > 	:0:
> > 	* ^X-Spam-Level: \*
> > 	spam/possibly
> > 
> I had no idea that spamassassin did that...

Did what?
 
> But why not just filter on the score then, if you want to use filters?

That's exactly what the above does.  Each asterisk represents a unit
score.  It's put there (so I've always assumed) so that it makes it easy
to filter on the score with a regex (regular expression).

I don't know whether TBird can do this which is why I asked the
question.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>




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