[antispam-f] Re: Weight keyword and blocklists

  • From: Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:41:36 +0100

In a recent message           Frank de Bruijn <antispam@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> In article <gemini.jz60oj002lxgn02y8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Jeremy Nicoll - freelists <jn.flists.73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

>> Does AS log anywhere what the weight value of an incoming mail is, or
>> add a header to the mail containing the weight value?

> If the loglevel is set to 'incoming' or 'both' AntiSpam will add a line
> after any Received header that results in a non zero weight. E.g.:

>  < Received: from 63-225-233-226.slkc.qwest.net
>   (63-225-233-226.slkc.qwest.net [63.225.233.226])
>  | Weight: 15 / 15

[...]

I have just done that for a small batch of incoming spam (there is no 
outgoing).  The results are most revealing!   If you just set the 
Weight limit above 10, then you catch at least half of the spam.

I am going to raise the priority of the Delete Weight rule.

-- 
Dave
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