First time installation of MailScanner

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 22 September 2003 9:49 am, Stephen Liu wrote:

> My email software continues downloading MS silly junk mails bouncing all
> the time.  I just have MailScanner installed and running.
>
> # service MailScanner start
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail:              [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail:              [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:                      [  OK  ]
>
> Still I observe the abovementioned junk mails downloaded.  Kindly advise
> how to check whether MailScanner is in full function.

1. Check the headers of an email you receive - they should show you various
things to do with MailScanner having scanned it, checked for spam, what score
it got, etc.

2. Check the syslogs on your mail server as one of these mails goes through
it - check for the first sendmail receiving and queueing it, MailScanner
processing it, and the second sendmail delivering it.

Regards,

Antony.

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