help tweaking

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Aug 13 16:10:30 IST 2007


I take it you are using mailwatch. What does it say for a spam that got
through?

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:45, Simon Jones wrote:
> Some messages are scanned OK as follows, and other's just don't get
> scanned at all:
> 
> SpamAssassin 
> Spam:  Y   Action(s): store, header, "X-Spam-Status:, Yes" 
> High Scoring Spam:  Y   Action(s): store, header, "X-Spam-Status:, Yes" 
> SpamAssassin Spam:  Y  
> Listed in RBL:  N  
> Spam Whitelisted:  N  
> Spam Blacklisted:  N  
> SpamAssassin Autolearn:  N  
> SpamAssassin Score: 16.07 
> Spam Report: Score Matching Rule Description 
> cached not   
>  score=16.076   
> 3 required   
> 1.66 FB_HARD_ERECTION   
> 3.31 URIBL_AB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the AB SURBL blocklist 
> 3.36 URIBL_JP_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the JP SURBL blocklist 
> 2.62 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the OB SURBL blocklist 
> 3.60 URIBL_SC_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the SC SURBL blocklist 
> 1.53 URIBL_WS_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the WS SURBL blocklist 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Simon Jones
> > Sent: 13 August 2007 15:22
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: help tweaking
> > 
> > Hi,  anyone know how I can figure out why mailscanner skips seemingly
> > obvious spam messages?  It does work quite well but there's a lot of
> > stuff it's missing and I'm not sure why.  Another weird thing is that
> > some accounts don't get scanned at all, I setup a user in mailwatch
> and
> > every message that hits the user is deemed clean even if it is spam, I
> > probably need a little help with the config I guess as mcp doesn't
> seem
> > to be doing anything either :(
> > 
> > If anyone would give me some pointers on checking stuff out and
> > tightening the rules it'd be great.  I have installed rules de jour,
> > pyzor razor etc also.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > SMJ
> > 
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