Spam Checks: Starting

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 7 20:41:41 GMT 2003


Have you done a reload or a restart of MailScanner since you edited the
conf files?

At 20:30 07/01/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>It is unclear to me why MailScanner still reads rules even though I
>disabled them through MailScanner.conf  file?
>
>Example:
>==========
>I've changed ../rules/deliver.clean.rules file to look like (added "To"):
>FromTo: default           yes
>
>(I've always had  " Log Spam = yes" turned on)
>
>and FINALLY I started getting detailed logs from SpamAssassin but rules are
>turned off  in MailScanner.conf file !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Jan  7 15:20:18 tonka MailScanner[32537]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>885 bytes
>Jan  7 15:20:18 tonka MailScanner[32537]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Jan  7 15:20:53 tonka MailScanner[32537]: Message h07KKEH7032751 from
>127.0.0.1 (tonka.aberfoyle.com) is spam, SpamAssassin (score=7.9, required
>5, FREE_MONEY, NO_MX_FOR_FROM, PLING_PLING, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,
>SUBJ_ALL_CAPS, SUBJ_FREE_CAP, SUB_FREE_OFFER, UPPERCASE_75_100)
>Jan  7 15:20:54 tonka MailScanner[32537]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
>messages
>Jan  7 15:20:54 tonka MailScanner[32537]: Spam Actions: message
>h07KKEH7032751 actions are deliver
>
>Question:
>=========
>Why the change done above will take effect  if my rules are disabled in
>MailScanner.conf file:
>Deliver Cleaned Messages = yes
># mnh Deliver Cleaned Messages = /etc/MailScanner/rules/deliver.clean.rules
>Spam Checks = yes
># mnh Spam Checks =  /etc/MailScanner/rules/deliver.clean.rules
>
>Any tips?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Magda Hewryk
>--------------------------------
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