certain emails not being scanned/marked as spam..

[Rob Charles]

Here is a sample.....

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i guess it simply fooled Mailscanner being i have an older installation 4.03


Rob Charles
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Stone" <Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: certain emails not being scanned/marked as spam..


> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 4:25 pm, Rob Charles wrote:
>
> > Hello all I have a couple questions to ask, I will make separate emails
> > about them, here is my first one....
> >
> >
> > it seems like some or all of incoming mail from my secondary mx server
is
> > not being scanned or marked as Spam
> >
> > why would this be? can someone please tell me where to start to look as
to
> > why?
> >
> >  I am using Mailscanner 4.03 on a Linux box for my primary, but my
> > secondary is a Sun machine and does not have Mailscanner on it.
>
> First place to check: the headers of the emails.   Make sure they are
passing
> through your primary MX machine.
>
> Second place to check: syslogs on the primary MX.   Make sure it is
> processing the emails, scanning them etc and not doing something unhelpful
> like whitelisting them because they come from your secondary MX...
>
> No point really looking at the syslogs on the secondary MX, because
yoou're
> not trying to do any scanning there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
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