help tweaking

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Aug 13 16:12:56 IST 2007


Did you specifically setup mcp?
Most people dont use it.

I didn't notice any mention of bayes in your earlier post.
Perhaps you haven't learnt enough ham and spams for it to work yet.

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:59, Simon Jones wrote:
> AAAH! Ok I think I may have figured out a problem in my setup, in
> MailScanner.conf I had 2 gateways with use spamassassin = &SQLnoScan and
> one of them with = yes
> 
> I was trying to get the db working with mailwatch to enable users to
> enter a spam score which affects their setup but I was obviously
> distracted at some point and didn't change the setting back, apologies
> for being dumb :o)
> 
> Ok that looks more consistent now - although I don't appear to have mcp
> working, how do I check that mcp is working ok?
> 
> Simon
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
> > Sent: 13 August 2007 15:59
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: RE: help tweaking
> > 
> > No a full copy of the email source. I dont know of a way to get it
> from
> > Outlook. I normally copy the file directly off our IMAP server.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:42, Simon Jones wrote:
> > > Hi Gareth,
> > >
> > > You mean headers? Like this:
> > >
> > > Received-SPF: none (nanigirl.net: No applicable sender policy
> > available)
> > > receiver=mailgate1.domain.co.uk; identity=mfrom;
> > > envelope-from="haluk at nanigirl.net"; helo="[200.209.151.9]";
> > > client-ip=200.209.151.9
> > > Received: from [200.209.151.9] (unknown [200.209.151.9])
> > >      by mailgate1.domain.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6396D85C3
> > >      for <customer at domain.co.uk>; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:55:56 +0100
> > (BST)
> > > Received: from [106.102.184.130] (port=8400 helo=[106.102.184.130])
> > >      by [200.209.151.9] with esmtp
> > >      id 1LcxvQ-000LFH-99
> > >      for customer at domain.co.uk; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:58:45 -0300
> > > Message-ID: <001001c7ddb2$0677cc20$0997d1c8 at xpsp2>
> > > From: "haluk buchanan" <haluk at nanigirl.net>
> > > To: customer at domain.co.uk
> > > Subject:
> > > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:58:28 -0300
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> > >      boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000C_01C7DD98.E12A9420"
> > > X-Priority: 3
> > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
> > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-
> > > > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
> > > > Sent: 13 August 2007 15:44
> > > > To: MailScanner discussion
> > > > Subject: Re: help tweaking
> > > >
> > > > The best thing to do is to upload an example somewhere so we can
> > check
> > > > it through spamassassin to see the rules which match for us.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:22, Simon Jones wrote:
> > > > > 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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