SpamAssassin Score Ruleset

[Julian Field]

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Matt Standish wrote:
> 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).
>>
>> 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?
You can do a restart instead of a reload if you like. It's just that a 
reload doesn't actually cause a sendmail break in service, which a 
restart does (for 30 seconds). Most settings will be re-read by a reload.

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