Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 3 14:53:20 IST 2003


And you are restarting/reloading MailScanner after you change the conf file?

At 14:42 03/09/2003, you wrote:
>I tried it without bounce flag with the same results. I also tried to put
>there just
>
>Spam Actions = forward postmaster at krnap.cz
>High Scoring Spam Actions = forward postmaster at krnap.cz
>
>with no success
>
>
>Zdenek
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf
>Of Chris Trudeau
>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:31 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work
>
>
>I may be wrong, but I believe if you bounce a message, the system treats
>that message as if it weren't received therefore does nothing more with
>it...Try removing the bounce from your config, restarting mailscanner and
>see if that makes a difference.
>
>CT
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Zdenìk Fajfr
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:17 AM
>Subject: Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work
>
>
>Hi all,
>I have a little problem with the spam action "forward". Here are the two
>lines from MailScanner.conf dealing with spam actions:
>
>Spam Actions = store forward postmaster at krnap.cz bounce
>High Scoring Spam Actions = store forward postmaster at krnap.cz bounce
>
>I just modified the suggested default values. Unfortunately NO forwarding
>occurs!!!
>
>Here is what MailScanner writes into mail logfile for every caught spam
>message:
>
>Sep  3 14:46:44 ns MailScanner[18921]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
>101903 bytes
>Sep  3 14:46:44 ns MailScanner[18921]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Sep  3 14:46:52 ns MailScanner[18921]: Message h83CkgIb019316 from
>192.168.248.153 (sales at defsol.se) to ns.krnap.cz is spam, SpamAssassin
>(skore=10.5, vyzaduje 5, DATE_IN_PAST_96_XX 1.63, FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 3.48,
>MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 0.10, MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART 0.35, MIME_MISSING_BOUNDARY
>0.16, MISSING_MIMEOLE 0.50, MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3 0.67, NO_REAL_NAME 0.82,
>RAZOR2_CHECK 2.06, RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0.55)
>Sep  3 14:46:52 ns MailScanner[18921]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
>Sep  3 14:46:52 ns MailScanner[18921]: Spam Actions: message h83CkgIb019316
>actions are bounce,store,forward,postmaster at krnap.cz
>Sep  3 14:46:52 ns MailScanner[18921]: Spam Actions: (SpamAssassin) Bounce
>to sales at defsol.se
>
>The message is apparently bounced back to sender, it is also stored in
>quarantine but what about forwarding to postmaster? It's essential for me to
>know what messages have been marked as spam to be able to recognize false
>positives and take appropriate actions (changes in configuration, let the
>recipients know etc.)
>Could anybody help me where did I go wrong in configuration?
>
>I use MailScanner-4.23-11 with sendmail 8.12.9, SpamAssassin 2.55 and Clamav
>antivirus on Linux Mandrake 9.1
>
>Thanks a lot for any help
>
>Z. Fajfr
>
>BTW: I regard MailScanner as an amazing piece of software, for it is very
>powerful, and yet relatively easy to configure (compare to clamav-milter,
>and especially Amavis)
>
>
>
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