Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work

[David Hooton]

Julian,

I have noticed a similar thing, forward just doesn't seem to work for me 
either.

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Julian Field wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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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