I don't fully understand how to change the way MailScanner handles spam. How can I change MailSc

David Curtis DCurtis at SBSCHOOLS.NET
Tue Feb 8 16:16:44 GMT 2005


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It is being quarantined. This is the whole header from the e-mail. There are no spamassassin scores in it. It looks like MailScanner tags it as spam and does not even rely on spamassassin. 

>>> Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA 2/8/2005 11:08:15 AM >>>
David Curtis wrote:

>I don't fully understand how to change the way MailScanner handles spam.
>How can I change MailScanner to not filter mail like the scoring it uses
>for Spamassassin? Below is an example of a header from a newsletter that
>is being filtered out but not because of Spamassassin scoring. I could
>always add a whitelist entry but I would rather figure out how to change
>this.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Subject: [SPAM] - {Spam as detected by MailScanner} Invitation to
>Esther Dyson's PC Forum, March 20 to 22: Hello (new) World - Found
>word(s) to be removed register today in the HTML body
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/html;
>        charset="ISO-8859-1"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>X-Mailer-Version: 3.5.5 build 727
>X-Mailer: Accucast
>X-Accutrak:
>CNET_Networks_#3.139973.3432373335333234 at newsletters.online.com 
>X-MailScanner-From:
>cnet_networks_#3.139973.3432373335333234.b at newsletters.online.com 
>Return-Path:
><cnet_networks_#3.139973.3432373335333234.b at newsletters.online.com>
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2005 16:52:12.0103 (UTC)
>FILETIME=[5E92BD70:01C50D35]
>
>  
>

David,

What do you mean by "filtered out"?  Do you mean it was quarantined or 
deleted?  What is in your maillog?

What are your values for:
Spam Actions =
High Scoring Spam Actions =
Non Spam Actions =

How about adding some verbosity to your MS setup?
Detailed Spam Report = yes
Include Scores In SpamAssassin Report = yes
Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes
Log Spam = yes
Log Non Spam = yes  (beware it can produce a lot a output)

Denis

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