On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:10 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > slugging through an awkward issue with spamassassin on my home server. > > > > I am using fetchmail to get mail from my ISP - who in essence, has > > already accepted delivery. > > > > I have an email in my box which fetchmail keeps retrieving and > > spamassassin is rejecting it - which is kind of an endless loop. > > > > Specifically, I am running spamassassin & spamass-milter (milter via > > sendmail). > > > > I currently have the following options to spamd set... > > > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin > > SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -H -L -x -u smmsp" > > > > hoping that the '-L' option would serve the purpose...it hasn't > > > > Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a > > way of snowballing. > > SpamAssassin is not the one rejecting the emails, it must be > spamass-milter. So setting options for spamd is not going to help you. > I'd remove -L, and let it do non-local tests too (obviously, when > running fetchmail you do have internet connection up and running). > Check settings for spamass-milter. Since spam emails are already > delivered to your ISP, and than transferred to your PC, you might as > well simply filter them out (to separate folder, or /dev/null), instead > of rejecting them. ---- bingo - spamass-milter was rejecting them with a default setting of '-r 15' and this was a big score email. I set it to 100 and removed the -L from spamassassin (it was worth the try). I really like cyrus-imapd and sieve by the way Thanks Craig
