Available Custom Rulesets
Listed below are several custom rulesets that are available as "drop in" .cf files. These rules are not part of the official SpamAssassin distribution. Please check to make sure that the default scores in these rules fit your installation and make sure to --lint the rules after loading them.
Use at your own risk.
antidrug.cf BR antidrug.cf is a set of rules designed to catch those pesky "pill spams".BR Created by: Matt Kettler BR Available at: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/antidrug.cf BR Note: Matt Kettler says "It may not be appropriate for a medical or pharmecutical environment. If in doubt, adjust the scores of all the rules to 0.01 and see if they fire off on your daily nonspam."
backhair.cfBR backhair is a set of rules designed to catch those ugly, unsightly HTML tags. BR Created by: Jennifer Wheeler BR Available at: http://www.emtinc.net/includes/backhair.cf BR More information on Jennifer's rules: http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm
bigevil.cfBR bigevil is a set of URIs that have been found in spam messages.BR Created by: Chris Santerre BR Available at: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf BR Extras: Chris has been kind enough to mirror many of these rulesets on his site, as well as many other custom rulesBR More information on Chris' rules: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm
chickenpox.cf [or th.is kind of garb+age"BR chickenpox is a set of rules designed to catch spam like "l.ooks f] Created by: Jennifer Wheeler BR Available at: http://www.emtinc.net/includes/chickenpox.cfBR More information on Jennifer's rules: http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm BR Note: This is a fairly aggressive ruleset that can hit on UUencoded attachments...
evilnumbers.cf BR evilnumbers is a collection of phone numbers, PO boxes and street addresses harvested from spam.BR Created by: Matt Yackley BR Available at: http://www.yackley.org/sa-rules/evilnumbers.cf BR Extras: Localized language packs available at the link below. BR More information on Matt Yackley's rules: http://www.yackley.org/sa-rules
sa-blacklist BR sa-blacklist is a large set of blacklist entries of domains and IP addresses. BR Created by: William Stearn BR Available at: http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current BR Note: These are blacklist entries and will tag emails on their own! This link is not a .cf file, you will need to save it with a .cf extension.
sa-blacklist-uri.cf BR sa-blacklist-uri is a large set of URIs BR Created by: William Stearn BR Available at: http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf BR
tripwire.cf BR tripwire searches for 3 characters that shouldn't be together.BR Created by: Fred T. BR Available at: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf BR Note: These rules are based on the English language, due to the number of rules that can be triggered, problem have been reported by exim users that it can cause the header to go over the byte limit of the exim header limits, also MS Outlook can have problems with rules that look for "message headers" due to a unknown size limit in the amount of headers it will search.
weeds.cf 1&2 BR weeds looks for alphabet decimal and hex characters, lower and uppercase. BR Created by: Jennifer WheelerBR Available at: http://www.emtinc.net/includes/weeds.cf or set 2 at: http://www.emtinc.net/includes/weeds_2.cfBR More information on Jennifer's rules: http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm BR Note: Weeds2 is a more restrictive set, DO NOT run both sets at the same time.
Automatic Updates BR If you find these rulesets useful and get tired of downloading updates, Chris Thielen, has kindly provided a perl script to automatically update these sets. You can find the script and instructions at: http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RulesDuJour