Mailscanner not tagging spam

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Mar 19 19:52:28 GMT 2008


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
> 
Also ... Try and run a mailscanner --lint and see if it spots anything.
You can try mailscanner --debug --debug-sa also.

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

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