help with active spam killer please

help with active spam killer please

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi all.

I have a small problem with active spam killer that I hope someone can
clear up for me. I want to automatically ignore all messages with a
subject line of:

***SPAM***

at the beginning of the subject. To this end, I've placed the
following line in my $HOME/.ask/ignorelist-local.txt:

subject ^\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*

, but I'm still seeing messages with 

***SPAM***

as the very first thing in the subject line showing up in my quarantine
queue. I've escaped the asterisks, since I wasn't sure if they were
used in regexps, and the ask documentation says that it's safe to do
so if you don't know that a particular character is or isn't used in a
regular expression.

Did I mess something up here, or is the line written the way that it's
supposed to be? If it is written the way it should appear, then does
anyone know why it's not working? The ask documentation does state
that ask can process subject lines as well as from and to lines. The
ask version I'm using is 2.4.11.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Greg


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Re: help with active spam killer please

[Kirk Reiser]

I have to admit I've never filtered on the subject line so I didn't
even realize you could do that.  Also I am using 2.50 and I don't know
how different the two versions are but what does your ask.log say
about encountering that specific subject line?

I use procmail for sorting all my mail into folders so my first
reaction would have been to just build a procmail recipe to drop those
messages in dev/null.

  Kirk

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Re: help with active spam killer please

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi Kirk and all.

I continued digging around after sending my message, and found the
problem. It turns out that when I was first testing and configuring my
$HOME/.askrc, I left one of the rc_mta_command lines written as

space hash rc_mta_command=

, and the space in front of the hash seems to have been the cause of
the problem. I don't know why it showed up only when scanning
$HOME/.ask/ignorelist-local.txt for a subject, and not under any other
conditions, but it did, and removing the space from in front of the
hash fixed it.

Thanks for your willingness to help Kirk.

Greg


On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:22:19PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> I have to admit I've never filtered on the subject line so I didn't
> even realize you could do that.  Also I am using 2.50 and I don't know
> how different the two versions are but what does your ask.log say
> about encountering that specific subject line?
> 
> I use procmail for sorting all my mail into folders so my first
> reaction would have been to just build a procmail recipe to drop those
> messages in dev/null.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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