Testing content filtering?

[Julian Field]

At 15:57 25/11/2002, you wrote:
>Also, after modifying this file, do you just restart spamassassin?

There isn't anything in SpamAssassin to restart. You want to restart
MailScanner.

>On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:27, Dan Kubilos wrote:
> > I do this for our school district by adding local rules to spamassassin.
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, James Pifer wrote:
> >
> > > My setup is Sendmail with MailScanner using SpamAssassin and f-prot.
> > > SpamAssassin does the content filtering right? I'm trying to test the
> > > server and make sure it's working before throwing it this weekend for a
> > > few hours as a pilot run.
> > >
> > > I've tried sending messages with a lot of offensive words in the subject
> > > and body that I won't repeat here, but they all get through without
> > > getting tagged. From the headers MailScanner is looking at it.
> > >
> > > Obviously I'm being naive and probably just assuming they should be
> > > getting caught. Can anyone suggest the best way to test this before
> > > trying it in production as our real mail gateway?
> > >
> > > Sorry if this is just a really stupid question....

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