config issue?

[Rob Livermore]

Below is the Mailscanner.conf spam portion of the file


Spam Checks = yes

Spam Header = X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:

Spam Modify Subject = yes

Spam Subject Text = {SPAM?}

Spam Action = delete

Log Spam = no

Use SpamAssassin = yes

Max SpamAssassin Size = 50000

SpamAssassin Timeout = 10

Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 10

SpamAssassin Prefs File =
/usr/local/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = yes

Compile SpamAssassin Once = yes

Always Include SpamAssassin Report = no

High SpamAssassin Score = 15

High Scoring Spam Action = delete


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Below is a log showing what happens to a message "tagged" as SPAM.

Aug 24 01:51:05 malachi sendmail[20188]: h7O8p1G20188:
from=<9ksklbkihz at yahoo.co
m>, size=6054, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<vn-onn-$5mmdf$$p at dqw5f>,
proto=SMTP, da
emon=MTA, relay=[211.90.202.200]
Aug 24 01:51:05 malachi sendmail[20188]: h7O8p1G20188:
to=<mmerrill at transwesttel
.com>, delay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=36054, stat=queued
Aug 24 01:51:06 malachi MailScanner[20180]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
6484
 bytes
Aug 24 01:51:07 malachi MailScanner[20180]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
messages
Aug 24 01:51:08 malachi MailScanner[20180]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting

Aug 24 01:51:08 malachi MailScanner[20180]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages

Aug 24 01:51:08 malachi sendmail[20238]: h7O8p1G20188:
to=<mmerrill at transwesttel
.com>, delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=126054,
relay=mail.tra
nswesttel.com. [207.218.8.8], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK)

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We are using sendmail and I appreciate your suggestions regarding blocking
certain email addresses.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:08 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: config issue?


On Monday 25 August 2003 4:47 pm, Rob Livermore wrote:

> I've configured the mailscanner.conf file to delete anything that is
marked
> {SPAM}

How have you done this?   Please post the relevant bits of your
MailScanner.conf (without comments).

> however the SPAM is still delivering to the mailboxes.

Check the headers of an email which gets delivered - make sure it got
processed by your MailScanner, and check the syslogs on the mail server when
it processed the mail - see what it says for "Spam Actions:" just after
logging all the reasons why it got tagged as spam.

> On a side note - is it possible to block certain internal email addresses
> from receiving external emails?

If you are using sendmail, then these can be configured in your
virtusertable:

baduser at mydomain.com            error:nouser No such user

If you're not using sendmail, maybe someone else can suggest how to do this.

Regards,

Antony.

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