HELO_LOCALHOST and SpamAssassin?

[Alex Broens]

On 4/14/2009 10:24 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:58:22 +0200
> Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch> wrote:
> 
>> 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.....)
>>
> 
> That may well be... But as far as I can see, I did fix that but for some reason it still triggers this rule...
> So I just thought I could disable this rule until I get time to look at this more closely...

all we can do is guess what you may or not have done.

If you ask in the webmail's list/forums, you're seldom the first and 
only one with the same problem and you'll probably get a quick reply to 
fix the issue at the source.

Alex