cannot stop spam mail

Jeff Mills Jeff.Mills at POCOLD.COM.AU
Mon Sep 26 02:45:29 IST 2005


Yes, right now you are telling MailScanner to deliver all spam that it =
detects.
High scoring spam should probably be set to delete.
You need to decide if you want to delete lower scoring spam, or tag the =
subject and let the user decide if its spam or not.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Jon Miller
> Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 11:48 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] cannot stop spam mail
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> after looking at the mailscanner.conf file I see that:
> 1) Always Include SpamAssassin Report =3D no
> 2) Spam Actions =3D deliver
> 3) High Scoring Spam Actions =3D deliver
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> I've changed #1 to =3D yes, but should #2 & #3 be set to delete=20
> if that is what I what done?
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> Jon
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> >>> mkettler at EVI-INC.COM 11:58:00 pm 25/09/2005 >>>
> Jon Miller wrote:
> >  SpamAssassin version 3.0.3=20
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> > location of header file
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> > http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au/Mime-1
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> > Thanks
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> Urgh.. Looks like your SA report is off... check your=20
> mailscanner.conf. Do you
> have this option?
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> Always Include SpamAssassin Report =3D yes
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> If not, turn it on and try again. It's impossible to debug=20
> the problem without
> that report added to the headers. In particular I'm=20
> interested to see if
> ALL_TRUSTED or BAYES_00 fired off.
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> (IMHO, turning this option off is a very bad idea. I'm sure=20
> Julian added it
> because someone asked, but I still think it's a bad idea unless you're
> comfortable greping logs on a regular basis)
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