[TAG] SpamAssassin Blacklist (Resent)

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Neil Youngman wrote:
> I've been playing with SpamAssassin settings and one thing I've noticed is 
> that I often get email to neighbouring addresses, or CCed to those addresses, 
> e.g. n.walker5 at ntlworld.com
> 
> I try and trap this using "blacklist_to *.w*@ntlworld.com", but it never seems 
> to match.

What file are you using for the above entry?

> AFAICT from http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html I 
> should get a match from these headers, but you can see that there is no 
> blacklist on the triggered rules. Can the gang see something I'm missing?

Well, you're using globbing (which is correct), and the syntax looks
right. The only things I can think of is either an incorrect filename
(e.g., adding your rules to /etc/spamassassin/user_prefs.template) or
not restarting "spamd", which may or may not read the rules on every
pass - I don't know for sure, but restarting it wouldn't hurt.


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