does sa-learn ignore X-Mailscanner headers

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Oct 13 19:20:47 IST 2003


Not easily, as MailScanner doesn't ever touch that file, it's purely for
SpamAssassin's benefit.

At 18:03 13/10/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>    Any chance that spam.assassin.prefs.conf could automagically figure
>out and/or use X-%org-name%-MailScanner... in spam.assassin.prefs.conf,
>to eliminate yet another by-hand twiddle at upgrade time?
>
>--- Jeff Earickson
>
>On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:35:59 +0100
> > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: does sa-learn ignore X-Mailscanner headers
> >
> > At 17:37 13/10/2003, you wrote:
> > >I have a bunch of spam that squeaked under the 5.0 threshold. I would
> like to
> > >feed this to sa-learn so that hopefully it will start filtering these out.
> > >
> > >Do I need to remove all the header lines that start with
> "X-Mailscanner"? They
> > >contain the current message score, as well as a list of what items made up
> > >the score.
> >
> > You need this in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
> >
> > # For spam and notspam bins
> > bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner
> > bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
> > bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-SpamScore
> > bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-Information
> >
> > You should obviously change the header names to whatever you customised
> > them to be (you did customise them, didn't you...)
> > --
> > Julian Field
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