[Mimedefang] Question about mimedefang-filter

[Ben Kamen]

Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm not nearly as sophisticated regarding Mimedefang as are many people 
> on this list. With that said, I find it fairly easy to reject e-mails 
> based on subject using $badwords =   in /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter. 
> Right now, there's not much in my $badwords =  My question is, is there 
> any kind of limit as to how many keywords I could put in there? If I put 
> too much in there, is it going to affect (slow down, etc.) my Mimedefang?


Ooo, sounds like Keyword filtering...

bad.. very bad...

You may want to consider adding them to a scoring list in mimedefang's spamassassin config file instead.

I NEVER reject message because they might have words that are legit or possibly mispelled.




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