Re: Micosoft hoax emails

From: Brian (nospam_at_my-local.net)
Date: 11/28/03


Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:07:54 +0000

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:37:57 +0000, Ivor Cave wrote:

> Jamison wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm running Qmail on E-smith 5.6 Server and I get flooded with about 50 per
>> day of these emails.
>>
>> Eg- 'Security Update' 'Bug Report' 'Microsoft Corporation' etc etc.
>>
>> I've installed spam assassin, but it doesn't seem to detect these as spam.
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>>

This worked fine for me - add it to your system-wide SpamAssassin conf
file or the local one as appropriate, and tweak the scoring to suit:
score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 10.0

B.

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