Setting Required SpamAssassin Score

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 19:59:24 GMT 2010


Hi Jim,

You have "Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes" set, but  I don't
see what the BL settings are ... Very likely your "too low SA score
ending up in quarantine" is due to a BL used in MS... And since you
have the setting, you also get an SA score...

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn

On 14 November 2010 17:56, Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am running MailScanner version 4.79.11 under Debian 5 with Exim4 version
> 4.69.
>
> Using the default MailScanner.conf setting of:
>
>        Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
>
> I find that MailScanner is quarantining messages as spam when the score is 5:
>
> MailScanner[16105]: Message 1PHew2-0004bD-71 from 196.27.122.30
> (postmaster at mango.zw) to smtp.mango.zw is spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
> score=5.002, required 5, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24 1.77, INVALID_DATE 1.65,
> MISSING_HEADERS 1.58)
>
> I append relevant config lines.
>
> Could someone please help out this newbie to SpamAssassin?
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> Mango - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
> Include Scores In SpamAssassin Report = yes
> Always Include SpamAssassin Report = no
> Use SpamAssassin = yes
> Max SpamAssassin Size = 200k
> Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
> High SpamAssassin Score = 10
> SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = yes
> SpamAssassin Timeout = 75
> Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 10
> SpamAssassin Timeouts History = 30
> Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes
> Include Binary Attachments In SpamAssassin = no
> Cache SpamAssassin Results = yes
> SpamAssassin Cache Database File =
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
> SpamAssassin Rule Actions =
> Sender SpamAssassin Report = %report-dir%/sender.spam.sa.report.txt
> Log SpamAssassin Rule Actions = yes
> SpamAssassin Temporary Dir =
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
> SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/lib/MailScanner
> SpamAssassin Install Prefix =
> SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir =
> SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir =
> MCP Required SpamAssassin Score = 1
> MCP High SpamAssassin Score = 10
> MCP Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 20
> MCP Max SpamAssassin Size = 100k
> MCP SpamAssassin Timeout = 10
> MCP SpamAssassin Prefs File = %mcp-dir%/mcp.spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> MCP SpamAssassin User State Dir =
> MCP SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir = %mcp-dir%
> MCP SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir = %mcp-dir%
> MCP SpamAssassin Install Prefix = %mcp-dir%
> SpamAssassin Cache Timings = 1800,300,10800,172800,600
> Debug SpamAssassin = no
>
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