Integrating with SpamAssassin on a RaQ

[Paul Welsh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Andersson" <barry at COATINGS.NET.AU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: 30 December 2002 00:07
Subject: Integrating with SpamAssassin on a RaQ


> I then sent a deliberate spam message full of lots of spammy phrases
which
> would have resulted in a score of around 10 to myself and a friend.
The
> email went through without the spam being detected.
>
> The mail log showed nothing, just that message was scanned and found
to be
> OK.

I have spamassassin and MailScanner working fine on a raq3 and I'm sure
there are plenty of people running on raq4s without problems.  There are
notes from Julian at www.mailscanner.info about installing spamassassin
on a raq4.

Did you try testing spamassassin as per the spamassassin documentation?
Just copy and paste the full message inc headers of a spam message into
a file called sample-spam.txt and ditto for a non-spam message into a
file called sample-nonspam.txt and then run the following commands:

spamassassin -t < sample-spam.txt > spam.out
spamassassin -t < sample-nonspam.txt > nonspam.out

Have a look at spam.out and nonspam.out and you should see lines like
this in it.  This at least will determine whether spamassassin is
working:

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.43 (1.115.2.20-2002-10-15-exp)

SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin
results ----------------------