Normal mail in quarantine

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Fri Mar 31 12:09:45 IST 2006


Dean

Check what that actions for 'normal' email are - if it's store then that's
why its quarantining them - which is a good idea (TM) when using MailWatch
as it means you can run the lean as spam/ham functions and other....

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Martin Hepworth 
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Plant, Dean
> Sent: 31 March 2006 11:52
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Normal mail in quarantine
> 
> I have just gone live with an upgraded MailScanner server and noticed
> that some non spam & non dangerous mail is being stored in quarantine.
> Any idea's to what I may have configured incorrectly.
> 
> My message actions from /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> 
> Spam Actions = store attachment deliver
> High Scoring Spam Actions = forward emailaddress at ourdomin.co.uk
> Non Spam Actions = deliver
> Non MCP Actions = deliver
> MCP Actions = deliver
> High Scoring MCP Actions = deliver
> 
> Viewing the quarantine in Mailwatch shows that most messages should not
> be in there, example below
> 
> Anti-Virus/Dangerous Content Protection
> Virus:	 N
> Blocked File:	 N
> Other Infection:	 N
> SpamAssassin
> Spam:	 N   Action(s): deliver
> High Scoring Spam:	 N
> SpamAssassin Spam:	 N
> Listed in RBL:	 N
> Spam Whitelisted:	 N
> Spam Blacklisted:	 N
> SpamAssassin Autolearn:	 N
> SpamAssassin Score:	-0.25
> Spam Report:
> 	Score	Matching Rule	Description-2.60	BAYES_00
> Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
> 0.00	HTML_MESSAGE	HTML included in message
> 0.23	HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY	HTML has unbalanced "body" tags
> 0.12	HTML_TEXT_AFTER_BODY	HTML contains text after BODY close tag
> 2.00	SARE_RAND_1
> Message Content Protection (MCP)
> MCP:	 N
> High Scoring MCP:	 N
> SpamAssassin MCP:	 N
> MCP Whitelisted:	 N
> MCP Blacklisted:	 N
> 
> MailScanner -V
> This is CentOS release 4.2 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.51.6
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.14    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.14    File::Temp
> 1.32    HTML::Entities
> 3.48    HTML::Parser
> 2.35    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.123   IO::Pipe
> 1.71    Mail::Header
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.419   MIME::Head
> 5.419   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.419   MIME::Tools
> 0.10    Net::CIDR
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.77    Socket
> 0.08    Sys::Syslog
> 1.86    Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
> 
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 1.810   DB_File
> 1.11    DBD::SQLite
> 1.50    DBI
> 1.08    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> 0.44    Inline
> 0.17    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.001001        Mail::SpamAssassin
> 1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.15    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.48    Net::DNS
> 0.31    Net::LDAP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 2.42    Test::Harness
> 0.47    Test::Simple
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dean
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