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Blacklisting e-mail addresses using MailScanner

1. Create a new file containing the blacklisted e-mail addresses (pico /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.blacklist.rules)

FromOrTo: user1@domain.com yes
FromOrTo: user2@domain.net yes
FromOrTo: default no


2. Configure MailScanner to handle all messages in the blacklist as spam (pico /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)

Replace this line:
Is Definitely Spam = no
 
with this:
Is Definitely Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.blacklist.rules


If you want to handle all messages from blacklisted e-mail addresses like high scoring spam, change this property:

Definite Spam Is High Scoring = yes


3. Restart MailScanner

/etc/init.d/mailscanner restart