Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work

[David Hooton]

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Julian Field wrote:
> 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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>> Regards,
>>
>> David Hooton
>> Senior Partner
>> Platform Hosting
>> 1300 85 HOST
>> www.platformhosting.com
>>
>> 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
>>>> ***********************************************
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>>>> E-mail: zfajfr at krnap.cz, zfajfr at click.cz
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>>>> ***********************************************


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