Tagging the subject line of e-mail

[Collins, Kevin]

Mike,

Thanks for responding.

I'm planning on adding SpamAssassin later in the project.  Is it required to
make the system function as I want?  I didn't get that from the
documentation.  They way I read the docs, SpamAssassin just improves
MailScanner's abilities.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:59 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Tagging the subject line of e-mail
>
>
> Are you using SpamAssassin?  If not, I'd HIGHLY recommend it!
>  You can also
> set Log Spam = yes and watch your maillog after restarting
> MailScanner.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Collins, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Tagging the subject line of e-mail
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I've just completed installing MS v4.22-5 onto a Red Hat 8
> machine to act as
> my company's "SPAM Filter".  First, I want to say THANKS for
> creating such a
> project and for making it available to the masses for free.
>
> A little background:
>
> MailScanner machine:
> Red Hat 8.0 (fully up2dated)
> Sendmail 8.12.8
> Perl 5.8.0
> ClamAV 0.60 (compiled from source)
> Sendmail set to relay everything to internal Exchange Server
>
> Everything seems to be working fine - I've even let a few e-mails pass
> through the machine for testing.  Which is why I'm writing; I
> now have a
> question.
>
> First, of the 20 some odd messages that have passed through
> MailScanner, it
> has tagged 3 as SPAM and one of them as having a Virus
> (actually it was an
> HTML Form in the message).  The "Virus" message behaved as
> expected - the
> e-mail was deleted and not passed on and I got a notification of the
> deletion.  But the remaining messages aren't working as I
> expected them to
> (I think).
>
> I've configured MailScanner to modify the subject line of
> every e-mail it
> touches to include {Scanned} at the beginning. (This is to
> let me - and
> everyone else - know that MS is working)  In addition I want all SPAM
> messages flagged with {Spam} as the beginning of the subject line and
> {Virus} for those that were found to have Viruses.
>
> To this point, all of the e-mail coming in (save the "Virus" message
> mentioned above) have only had the word {Scanned} pre-pended
> to the Subject
> Line.  I've not seen the {Spam} label anywhere.  Here are the
> (I think)
> appropriate sections of the MailScanner.conf:
>
> --<snip>--
> Scanned Modify Subject = start
> Scanned Subject Text = {Scanned}
> Virus Modify Subject = yes
> Virus Subject Text = {Virus}
> Filename Modify Subject = yes
> Filename Subject Text = {Filename}
> Spam Modify Subject = yes
> Spam Subject Text = {Spam}
> High Scoring Spam Modify Subject = yes
> High Scoring Spam Subject Text = {Spam}
> --<snip>--
> Spam Checks = yes
> Spam List = ORDB-RBL Infinite-Monkeys # MAPS-RBL+ costs money (except
> .ac.uk)
> Spam Domain List =
> Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 5
> Spam List Timeout = 10
> Max Spam List Timeouts = 7
> Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
> Is Definitely Spam = no
> --<snip>--
>
> >From this, is my description of how MailScanner should work valid?
> >Have I
> forgot to do something?  What do I need to change/add/delete
> to make it work
> as I describe?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
> Systems Manager
> Nesbitt Engineering, Inc.
>