Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work

[Julian Field]

Which MTA are you using? It appears to work on my sendmail setup.

At 15:40 03/09/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>I have noticed a similar thing, forward just doesn't seem to work for me 
>either.
>
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>
>David Hooton
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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)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>***********************************************
>>>Zdenek Fajfr
>>>Department of Informatics & GIS
>>>The Krkonose Mts. National Park Adm.
>>>Dobrovskeho 3
>>>54311 Vrchlabi
>>>Czech Republic
>>>The Heart of Europe
>>>***********************************************
>>>Tel: (+420) 499 456 232, 737 225 439
>>>Fax: (+420) 499 456 216, 499 422 095
>>>E-mail: zfajfr at krnap.cz, zfajfr at click.cz
>>>Web:    http://www.krnap.cz
>>>***********************************************
>
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