Slackware 13 and Mailscanner

[Glenn Steen]

On 25 March 2010 12:10, Eric Mink <e.mink at remote.nl> wrote:
> When i look in the maillog :
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> cat /var/log/maillog | grep talk2denixx at hotmail.com
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What makes you think "grep" is the proper maillog analysis tool? It is
not. For this, use your eyes, intellect and a good pager, like
"less"... Then follow the ID (not some email address) through the
logs. It is the MailScanner log entries that would be interresting.
There are a number of functions that would lead to "spam tagging"
without involving SA... RBLs used in MailScanner (just use one, at the
most two... after that, it is better to use SA (parallell lookups)
than MS (serial lookups)), failed watermarks ... The logs might
actually tell you;-). Or, if you've implemented MailWatch... that will
surely include anough clues in the detail page for the message;-).

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> Mails in quarantaine are the ones that are listed in rbl`s
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Yes. And _where_ do you check them? In MS?

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> Spamassassin doesn`t seem to do anything.
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Well, you might have set things so that if it is already marked as
spam, you simply don't run SA on it... MS is a versatile and _very_
configurable tool... lots of ways of shooting ones foot to
smithereens;-):-)

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> Met vriendelijk groet,
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> Eric Mink

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