MailScanner/SpamAssassin Debug?

[Julian Field]

Henry Kwan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am setting up a MailScanner frontend (CentOS5, Postfix, MailScanner,
> SpamAssassin, ClamAV) and everything seems to be up and running but since
> I'm currently using a test domain, I'm not getting a lot of emails yet. 
> How can I be sure that MailScanner/SpamAssassin is functioning correct? 
> When I send test emails from something like GMail, very few SA tests get
> triggered.  If I run SpamAssassin by itself and get the expected results,
> does that mean everything is OK?
>
> What exactly does "Debug SpamAssassin = yes" do?  There's no apparent
> difference in output or in the log file.
>   
It is designed to be used from the command-line (as "--debug-sa") in 
conjunction with the Debug switch "--debug".

So run MailScanner on one batch of messages with
MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
and you will see a *very* different output.

Jules

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