[gtaSAGE-members] MTA's and gateway virus/MIME/SPAM blocking.

Julian C. Dunn lists+gtasage@aquezada.com
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:29:17 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jon Nistor wrote:

> Why use spamassasin or any other spam thingy when you can just have a 500
> line header/body check file in regex =)  Think of the pain and agony of it
> all!

Haha! Funny man!

Seriously though, in actual fact we already have 500+ lines of header and
body checks. The only problem with those is that the risk of false
positives is much higher;  because you cannot assign a "score" to those
regexps, if you accidentally hit one, you're immediately screwed
(REJECTed).

- Julian

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