Re: stupid spamassassin tricks

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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


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