_STARS(*)_ Problem

[Martin Hepworth]

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Dean Maunder wrote:
> OK, is there any intent to support this in the future?  We have recently
> moved from having our mail hosted to hosting ourselves and some of my
> users are complaining as they used to filter on the number of 'ssss' in
> the subject. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2005 9:07 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: _STARS(*)_ Problem
> 
> Dean M wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I have recently installed MailScanner 4.43.8 and almost everything is 
>>working great!  The problem is the Spam Score subject.  I see Spam 
>>Score ssssss etc in the header, but if I try and use [Spam Score 
>>_STARS(s)_] in the subject I get exactly that attached to any spam 
>>messages, rather than [Spam Score ssssssss] Has anyone found the same 
>>problem?
> 
> 
> 
> MailScanner doesn't use SpamAssassin's markup generation, it does it's
> own. All message tagging options are configured in MailScanner's config
> files.
> 
> Anything relating to message tagging that you set it spamassassin's
> config files (local.cf, etc) will be ignored. (however, options like
> use_bayes, etc will still be used as they affect how SA calculates
> scores, and MS does use that part of SA).
> 
> AFAIK, the _STARS_ bit is a spamassassin option, and isn't supported by
> MailScanner at all.
> 

I find filtering by the presence of {Spam?} at the start of the header 
works for my users. This is normally set if MS thinks its spam.

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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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