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

[David Curtis]

Yes, MS is doing rbl's. Every thing I have read told me to not have
spamassassin do them as it was to much load.

Thanks.

Thanks,
David Curtis
dcurtis at sbschools.net
(802) 652-7254
South Burlington School District
550 Dorset Street
South Burlington, Vt 05403
>>> martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM 02/09/05 4:49 AM >>>
david

are you doing RBL checks within MailScanner? If you are then I suggest
you use SA to do them as doing it in MS make the RBL  act as a
blacklist.
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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.
>
>
>>>>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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