getting spamassassin to work

[Julian Field]

At 06:42 24/10/2002, you wrote:
>However, mailscanner didn't note it as spam or update the subject line:

The first MailScanner noticed it as spam. The second one didn't. Which
scanner belongs to whom?

>Subject: SpamScore test
>From: Jim Levie <jim at entrophy-free.net>
>To: steveb at cme.nist.gov
>Content-Type: text/plain
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6)
>Date: 24 Oct 2002 00:18:31 -0500
>Message-Id: <1035436711.6646.33.camel at chaos.entrophy-free.net>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (score=10.1, required 5, AMAZING,
>        FULL_REFUND, PROFITS, GUARANTEE, PRINT_OUT_AND_FAX, CALL_FREE)
>X-SpamAssassin: ssssssssss
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5)
>
>
>Why else would the final score come out 0?
>
>
>The logs said:
>
>Oct 24 01:26:17 yin.cme.nist.gov MailScanner[19597]: New Batch: Scanning 2
>messages, 6051 bytes
>Oct 24 01:26:17 yin.cme.nist.gov MailScanner[19597]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Oct 24 01:26:18 yin.cme.nist.gov MailScanner[19597]: Virus and Content
>Scanning: Starting
>Oct 24 01:26:21 yin.cme.nist.gov MailScanner[19597]: Uninfected: Delivered 2
>messages
>
>(I have Log Spam = yes ...)
>
>Thanks Jim for the test message though.
>
>Steve

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