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

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA
Tue Feb 8 16:27:44 GMT 2005


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David Curtis wrote:

>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. 
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David,

What's in your maillog for this email?  The key lies probably there...

Denis

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>>>>Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA 2/8/2005 11:08:15 AM >>>
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>David Curtis wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Thanks.
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>>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]
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>David,
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>What do you mean by "filtered out"?  Do you mean it was quarantined or 
>deleted?  What is in your maillog?
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>What are your values for:
>Spam Actions =
>High Scoring Spam Actions =
>Non Spam Actions =
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>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)
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>Denis
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