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

Wed Feb 9 13:29:26 GMT 2005

Thank you. I will give that a try.

>>> martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM 2/9/2005 6:40:18 AM >>>
David

I suggest to most people that they do it from SA.

If you do it from MS than the RBL acts as a complete blacklist and
you've not idea which RBL fired either.

If you do it from SA then it only adds to the score and doesn't tend
to
trigger false positives.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

David Curtis wrote:
> 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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