SpamAssassin Score Ruleset

[Matt Standish]

Julian Field wrote:
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> 2 things:
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> 1. MailScanner uses the sender address in the envelope, not the From: 
> address that may happen to appear in the headers. Check you are checking 
> the real address.
> 2. You should add a default rule to your ruleset
>     FromOrTo: default 5
> 3. You are doing a "service MailScanner reload" or equivalent (e.g. HUP 
> the MailScanner processes).
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> Oh, that's 3, never mind :-)

Thanks.  The sender envelope actually is the problem!

I am not following point 3.  I should or shouldn't restart the process 
(/etc/init.d/MailScanner restart)?  Why would this effect the rules?

Thanks for the help!