Spam Questions

[Brandon Friedman]

My spam.action.conf .......is working as I have set it up?
I edited my mailscanner.conf file to use it, I then entered an e-mail
address and action is delete but the mail still comes through?

Julian Field wrote:

> At 23:51 25/06/2002, you wrote:
>
>> For those who recieved my earlier post forget it.... I have installed
>> spamassassin. A few questions:
>> 1. I installed using CPAN....is that ok instead of downloading the tar
>> and installing?
>
>
> Personally I always download the tar. Ensure you have version 2.31.
>
>> 2. I also installed additional modules like Net::DNS, Mail:Audit,
>> Net::SMTP...are these required or not?
>
>
> It needs Net::DNS but the others are pretty irrelevant.
>
>> 3. Does the X-header for spam get added to each e-mail or only the ones
>> with spam detected?
>
>
> Only ones detected as spam (unless you set "Always Include SpamAssassin
> Report = yes").
>
>> 4. I don't quite understand the "scoring" system - where can I get more
>> info..?
>
>
> Read www.spamassassin.org
>
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> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
>


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