Spamassassin works but not with MS

Stephen Lee splee at PLEXIO.COM
Fri Oct 18 16:25:05 IST 2002


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 02:33, Peter Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:47:10 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >I'm running MS 3.24-1 with SA 2.42 on Trustix 1.5/Perl 5.6.1. It appears
> >that SA correctly identifies spam but through some interaction with MS,
> >the message is not tagged as spam. Here's an example header:
> >
> >X-Spam-Flag: YES
> >X-Spam-Level: Spam-Level SSSSSSSSSSS
> >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.42 (1.115.2.14-2002-10-04-exp)
> >X-Spam-Report: 11.40 hits, 5 required;
>
> I didn't find any indication your SA uses whitelisting.

But the auto-whitelist file is getting larger and the file timestamp is
current. Doesn't that mean SA is using whitelisting?

>
> >X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> >X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.5, required 5,
> >     AWL)
>
> The MS version of SA uses AWL.

Yes, I intended to use the AWL feature. The SA docs say that auto white
listing is turned on with the "-a" switch. I presume that turning on AWL
somehow passes that request onto SA?

Thanks,
Stephen



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