{"id":8227,"date":"2006-01-17T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/17\/spam-spam-spam-spam-18.html"},"modified":"2006-01-17T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T01:15:58","slug":"spam_spam_spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/spam_spam_spam.html","title":{"rendered":"Spam, spam, spam, spam …"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Internet host, Hosting Matters<\/a>, is rolling out a new anti-spam system to its various servers, and it finally got to mine. <\/p>\n

The new system, MailScanner, still uses the SpamAssassin engine, but the option to flag subject lines of spam messages (as detected) has gone away (it’s a server-based setting, not an account-based setting, and evidently a huge majority of HM users prefer not to see the subject line marked up). Problem is, a lot of mailers (like Outlook Express) can’t read the alternative mail header flags.<\/p>\n

MailScanner has two threshold (configurable to a SpamAssassin score) — “low scoring spam” and “high scoring spam.” Mail falling into either of those categories can be set to be delivered, deleted, or routed to a particular e-mail address.<\/p>\n

Now, with Thunderbird, I can set a Message Filter to look for a X-HMDNSGroup-MailScanner-SpamScore<\/em> message header value that contains “ssssssssssss” or something. But what makes this dicey is that I also provide mail hosting to my folks, Margie’s folks, and Mary, and OE users (the Ks) can’t do message header filtering, and I have no idea if it’s possible in my folks’ or Mary’s e-mail clients.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

What I will likely do is monitor what flows into my account with that flag, and look for false positives, then play with the settings some more, until I can confidently just have stuff flagged as spam deleted. Either that, or the HM folks have said they’re looking at a per-account subject line flagger that I’d be more than happy to go back to using.<\/p>\n

Meantime, the new system also has anti-virus cleaning and some nice anti-phishing\/fraud features that I consider a plus. Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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