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Custom Rulesets

SpamAssassin allows entire third-party rulesets to be installed simply by placing them in the sitewide configuration directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin).

There is a collection of CustomRulesets that have been contributed by members of the SpamAssassin community. These rulesets, while very effective, have not gone through the same "quality assurance" that the main rules have gone through. Thus, use of these third party rulesets is "at your own risk".

Where do I put rules ?

(FIXME: move to WhereDoLocalSettingsGo)

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Note: if you use spamd, rules placed in user_prefs will be IGNORED by default.

Do NOT not add your rules to the .cf files in

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