SpamAssassin, how do I know that it's working

[Gerry Doris]

I have never been able to get spamassassin to flag spam sent to myself.
It works fine for incoming spam though.

Checking the spamassassin docs it says that if you receive three mails
which are not matched as spam from the same id then spamassassin
automatically inserts that id into it's whitelist and will not flag
messages from that id again no matter how "spammish" they appear.

For command line users this happens automatically.


Gerry

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> At 16:49 15/01/2002, you wrote:
> >I've installed Mailscanner with Mcafee and its working great, however None of
> >the emails are ever tagged as being checked for spam.
> >
> >are the headers only changed if they are spam?
>
> Yes.
>
> >How can I test it?
>
> Send yourself the SpamAssassin sample-spam file. Alternatively, crank down
> the "required_hits" in ~root/.spamassassin.cf and restart MailScanner. Then
> send yourself virtually any mail that even remotely looks like spam, and it
> should trigger it.
>
> >all the tests passed and I'm using spamassassin 2.0, I was using 1.5 and I
> >didn't see a difference.
>
> I haven't tried 2.0 as it's still in development.
>
> >and also do I have to start spamassassin, or does mailscanner take care of
> >that for me?
>
> MailScanner takes care of all of that for you. I trust you have enabled
> SpamAssassin in mailscanner.conf...
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