getting spamassassin to work

[Jim Levie]

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 00:42, Steve Barber wrote:
> Jim Levie wrote:
> > The message sample you showed clearly indicates that the source address
> > is whitelisted, so you won't get a SpamScore header. Since there's no
> > way that you'd have my address in your SpamAssassin whitelist, I've
> > taken the liberty of sending you a message that is certain to result in
> > a SpamScore header. If you don't see it there, then there's a problem.
>
> Hm.  That's progress... not sure why my test message didn't work
> once I turned of whitelisting, but yours came in with a score of 10.
>
> However, mailscanner didn't note it as spam or update the subject line:
>
Headers are added at the end, so my MTA added the first set and yours
added the second. It's farily obvious that SpamAssassin isn't working
correctly. I'd suggest deleting the SA whitelist DB and re-installing
the current version of SA (2.43).
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