[Mimedefang] Scanning for phrases & key words
Ken March
ken at implant.net
Wed Jul 10 13:15:01 EDT 2002
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Robin Brady wrote:
> Someone in the staff meeting suggested scanning for words and phrases
> in the bodies of email that the powers-that-be decide is inappropriate. I
> guess what they want to do is to try and only block the porno spams.
>
> Can this be done with mimedefang?
That's basically what SpamAssassin does (plus header checks, optional
Rezor checking, etc.). SA scores the e-mail based upon the text in the
headers, body, etc., and then you can then block based upon a threshold.
Since mimedefang makes use of SpamAssassin, the answer to your question is
yes.
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