Spam Actions not working correctly?

[Julian Field]

Can we clarify which version you are having the problem with?
3 or 4?

At 14:03 02/12/2002, you wrote:
>Er, the extract I included from the maillog showed that the rule worked?
>AFAIK you don't need the From/To in the spam.actions.conf file
>
># This file contains instructions for what to do with messages that are
># detected as spam.
># Each line can contain:
># <address> <action>
># where <action> is either 'deliver', 'store' or 'delete'
># and <address> is either a full email address (e.g. user at sub.domain.com)
>#                      or a domain name        (e.g. sub.domain.com)
>#                      or a wildcard domain    (e.g. *.domain.com)
>#                      or the keyword 'default'.
>
>Ruleset:
>
>Spam Action = /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/spam.actions.conf
>#Spam Action = deliver
>
>Matthew
>
>
>
>
>                     Mike Kercher
>                     <mike at CAMAROSS.NET       To:
> MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>                     >                        cc:
>                     Sent by:                 Subject:     Re: Spam
> Actions not working correctly?
>                     MailScanner
>                     mailing list
>                     <MAILSCANNER at JISCM
>                     AIL.AC.UK>
>
>
>                     12/02/2002 08:49
>                     AM
>                     Please respond to
>                     MailScanner
>                     mailing list
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Looks like you are missing the From/To column:
>
>To:     mbowman at udcom.com               delete
>To:     *@vbcomm.net            delete
>
>Have your rules EVER worked?  And do you have the path to this ruleset
>defined properly in MailScanner.conf?
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Matthew Bowman
>Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:36 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Spam Actions not working correctly?
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>I have a problem with Spam Actions in the sense that it doesn't appear
>to work all the time
>
>
>mbowman at udcom.com   delete
>*@vbcomm.net             delete
>default                 deliver
>
>I still get {SPAM?) and {VIRUS?} tagged e-mail. I also get the mail for
>hostmaster at vbcomm.net.
>
>
>However, my maillog this morning states that spam.actions is working...
>
>Dec  2 08:29:42 smithers sendmail[6893]: gB2DTgU06893: from
>=<postmaster at raq01.vbcomm.net>, size=1404, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid
>=<200212021331.IAA20387 at raq01.vbcomm.net>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
>relay=climax.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.12] Dec  2 08:29:42 smithers
>sendmail[6893]: gB2DTgU06893: to =<mbowman at udcom.com>, delay=00:00:00,
>mailer=smtp, pri=31404, stat=queued Dec  2 08:29:50 smithers
>mailscanner[5752]: Message gB2DTgU06893 from 208.178.120.12
>(raq01.vbcomm.net) is spam according to SpamAssassin (score=5.3,
>required 5.2, AWL, HTTP_USERNAME_USED, MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,
>NO_REAL_NAME, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, WEIRD_PORT, X_AUTH_WARNING) Dec  2
>08:29:50 smithers mailscanner[5752]: Deleted spam message gB2DTgU06893
>from queue
>
>I don't filter @vbcomm.net (one of our domains through mailscanner?) as
>yet. hostmaster at vbcomm.net is an alias that goes to mbowman at udcom.com
>and another e-mail addressee. @udcom.com is filtered through
>mailscanner.
>
>This is on a RH 7.2 box with mailscanner 3.26-2 and sendmail 8.11.6
>
>Regards,
>
>Matthew K Bowman,
>Systems Administrator

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