HELO_LOCALHOST and SpamAssassin?

[Alex Broens]

On 4/14/2009 9:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 4-14-2009 12:42 PM Bjørn T Johansen spake the following:
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:05:49 +0100
>> Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 14/4/09 19:35, Bj�rn T Johansen wrote:
>>>> How can I disable this check in SpamAssassin? All the mail from my webmail server gets a score of 4,75 from this test, which means; it's almost
>>>> marked as spam just for this....
>>>>    
>>> To disable any SpamAssassin test in MailScanner, you should normally 
>>> just have to set
>>> score TROUBLESOME_RULE_HERE 0.0
>>> in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assasssin.prefs.conf and restart MailScanner.
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>> ok, so I have added the following rule..:
>>
>> score HELO_LOCALHOST 0.0
>>
>>
>> but the mail is still scored 4.5 from rule HELO_LOCALHOST  ?
>>
>>
>> BTJ
> Did you reload?

just wondering if its wiser to disable that rule or to fix whatever is 
HELOing as localhost and make it HELO with a FQDN, as it should.
(HELO localhost could also trigger some filter downstream.....)