Use Spamassassin - Not working properly

Jim Scott jscott at INFOCONEX.COM
Fri Jul 30 19:56:12 IST 2004


> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:18:43 -0700, Jim Scott <jscott at infoconex.com>
wrote:
> > > || Not sure what to look at. We setup a rule in the MailScanner.conf
> > > || file like this.
> > > ||
> > > || /etc/MailScanner/rules/spamassassin.rules
> > > ||
> > > || The file contains a couple of test rules.
> > > ||
> > > || For example:
> > > || FromOrTo:    jscott at infoconex.com   yes
> > > || From:    192.168.105.5/24    yes
> > > || From:    Customers block     yes
> > > ||
> > > || If I send or receive email it gets processed by spamassassin. If I
> > > || send an email from the private IP space no matter what my from
email
> > > || address is it gets scanned by spamassassin as it should.
> > > ||
> > > || However my customers IP space nothing is getting processed?
> > > ||
> > > || The only thing that is different is that I have 2 IP's bound to
this
> > > || machine. I have the client use the 2nd IP to relay emails via so I
> > > || can monitor traffic generated. The customers has multiple networks
> > > || and for each I have the whole /24 added.
> > > ||
> > > || Any ideas what to look at?
> > > ||
> > > || It sure looks like it should work properly. Just isnt.
> > > ||
> > > || Jim
> > > ||
> > > | Anyone able to help me on this one?
> > > |
> > > | Jim
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility that your customers ip block is getting
NATted?
> > >
> > No, I have verified that the IP showing up in my maillogs is one of the
IP's
> > I have listed. By the way they have about 40 locations that I am doing
this
> > for. None of them have worked yet. In all cases I can see in my logs
that
> > the IP it is being sent from is the IP range I have listed.
> Mmmmhhh time to start with stupid questions...
>
> You're sure that the fields in the non-working rules are separated by
> tabs and not spaces, are you?
>
> An excess in copy&paste may have put spaces where you had tabs...
>
Just looked. Definitely Tabs.

Jim

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