Setting Required SpamAssassin Score

[Jim Holland]

Hi Martin and Jules

Thanks for your feedback, which was very helpful as I had not set up the 
symbolic link.

Unfortunately that did not solve my original problem, as MailScanner still
used the default value of 5.0 for SpamAssassin.  I could only hit myself
over the head when I finally tracked down the cause of the problem: On
this new server (which I am just getting to grips with) I am using for the
first time the very useful "include /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/*" facility
and I had been storing all the modifications to a local configuration file
there, and that had the default value of 5.0 set in it.  However I was
trying to change the SpamAssassin score in the MailScanner.conf file,
which of course was then duly ignored . . .

What can I say?  I will try and take comfort in the thought that there 
must be at least one or two others that have made this kind of mistake at 
some time or other in the long distant past. No?

Regards

Jim Holland

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Jules Field wrote:

> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:48:30 +0000
> From: Jules Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Setting Required SpamAssassin Score
> 
> 
> 
> On 14/11/2010 18:24, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > did you restart MailScanner after altering the MailScannerconf?
> >
> > Also is there a link from the spamassassin site preferences dir (where 
> > ever local.cf <http://local.cf> is found, usually 
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin but may be different in Debian)? There should 
> > be a mailscanner.cf <http://mailscanner.cf> which is a symbolic link 
> > to MailScanner.conf
> He meant spam.assassin.prefs.conf at the end of that sentence, not 
> MailScanner.conf.
> 
> Jules.
> 
> > On 14 November 2010 16:56, Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw 
> > <mailto: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 <mailto:postmaster at mango.zw>) to
> >     smtp.mango.zw <http://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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> 
> Jules
> 
> 

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
Mango - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service