Question about white and blacklisting in Mailscanner

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 08:42:34 IST 2008



Jonas Akrouh Larsen wrote:
>>> Now what has always wondered me is why both white and blacklisted mail 
>>> are STILL processed through spamassin regardless of their status.
>>>
>>>       
>> That should only happen if you have asked to always get a SpamAssassin 
>> report.
>>     
>
> If you mean the spamassassin report that's inserted into mail headers so you
> can see which checks was run and what score was given, then I do indeed
> always get that.
>
> Do you mean that if I change Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes
> to no, then a hit on the whitelist/blacklist will mean MS skips the SA
> check?
>   
Correct.
You asked to always get a report, so it's giving you one :-) Don't ask 
it to, and it won't :-)

Jules

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