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Next, you should join the spamassassin-users mailing list (if you're not already a member), and post the test rules to that list, and ask others to check against their corpora. List members often will also suggest improvements to the tests.

Wiki MarkupMost importantly, you should create a new "bug" entry with the suggested rules in the \[http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org SpamAssassin bugzilla\]. This will ensure that the developers will actually see the rules (while the developers participate in the list, it's easy for these suggestions to get lost in the noise). You should attach 1 or more sample spam messages (with all headers intact, please!) as attachments, too, so we can see an example of what the rule is intended to catch.

From that point on, the SpamAssassin developers handle things. They may ask you some questions or request a contributor license agreement if the contribution requires it, and hopefully, your new rules will be added to the source code repository for testing, and if they work well, are likely to be included in future released versions.

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