Re: [exim] ACL to reject spam

Michael Johnson wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Marc Sherman wrote:
>
>
>>Michael Johnson wrote:
>>

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>>>What about the core problem? I went into the scores.cf file of SA
>>>and changed the blacklist to 50 from 100. Is the inability to reject
>>>a score over 100 a bug or a feature?
>>
>>It's something that you're the only person to report. I suspect
>>there's
>>something going on that your not noticing. Can you produce exim debug
>>output from a test message that scores higher than 100 in SA?
>
>
> It's happening on several accounts, but only those which get the
> Pottery Barn spam. On its own merits, the PB messages gets a score
> of about 2 or 3. That's not enough for my setup to reject it. I
> don't do that until 4. But, with the blacklist being 100, that score
> gets bumped to 102 or 103. I don't currently have a message from PB,
> but I'll probably get one today or tomorrow. I'll send the
> appropriate headers.
>
> -Michael

We use integer scores and comparisons in Exim acl's that range from 0 to over
1000 without a problem.

That said, these are protocol-violation or local BL hits, not run through SA, so
would be indifferent to any upper-bounds or math limits in SA.

Bill