Mailscanner not tagging spam

[Scott Silva]

on 3-19-2008 11:47 AM Paul Welsh spake the following:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Scott Silva
>> Sent: 19 March 2008 18:22
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: Mailscanner not tagging spam
>> But do the messages that aren't tagged as spam have 
>> mailscanner headers in 
>> them like "X-MailScanner-ID:"? That will tell you if 
>> spamassassin is not 
>> working, or if mail is bypassing mailscanner completely.
>>
> OK, some more results.  Received 260 odd messages today, most of them spam
> that hadn't been tagged.  Here's a sample of an Internet Header:
> 
> X-myMail-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0,
> 	required 6, autolearn=)
> X-myMail-MailScanner-From: _gilbert at abbeywebdesign.com
> X-Spam-Status: No
> 
> I have noticed, however, that all of 6 messages do have the {Spam?} subject
> line modification and has this:
> 
> X-myMail-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=6.223,
> 	required 6, BAYES_50 0.00, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST
> 0.13,
> 	MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 1.40, RCVD_IN_PBL 0.91, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 3.00,
> 	RDNS_NONE 0.10, SPF_NEUTRAL 0.69)
> X-myMail-MailScanner-SpamScore: 6
> 
That sure looks like they are passing through Mailscanner.  Were there any 
system updates right before this stopped working?
Are you using mailwatch and the database is full or corrupted?

Maybe you could stop MailScanner and delete the spamassassin-cache db and 
restart to rule out any corruption there.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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