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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "DuBois, Joseph" <Jo...@childrens.harvard.edu> on 2006/08/29 00:36:39 UTC
Getting Spamassasin to work.
Ok.
Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My
hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running
fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two,
which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite the Subject
on any Spam with a new subject with the score.
So now I need to know what email I can send myself which will set off
spamassassin so that I can see if it is working properly?
I found the lists of tests from the URL below, but need an email that
will trigger a subject rewrite. I tried sending one that had a ton of
junk words which should have triggered the rewrite, but it never arrived
(think my work email server might have filtered it out).
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html
spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.1.4
running on Perl version 5.8.7
required_score 1
rewrite_header Subject Rated SPAM-Junk-This _SCORE(00)_
Joseph DuBois, Lead Application Specialist
Application Standards & Specialty Projects
Children's Hospital Boston
joseph.dubois@childrens.harvard.edu
Phone:617-919-4543
RE: Getting Spamassasin to work.
Posted by Bret Miller <br...@wcg.org>.
> First, thanks all that sent me help to get a test message to
> work. I was
> able to successfully get SA to trigger.
>
> It appears that SA is only currently working on my local mail accounts
> and not the alias/forward emails.
>
> So what I have is an Hosting provider which hosts my domain, that I
> setup alias emails for myself and others which then forwards
> the emails
> onto their local ISP providers email account.
>
> So is SA not going to work for me? Or is there an option that
> I need to
> talk to for my hosting provider to get it to work on forwarders?
Whether SpamAssassin runs for a message is probably based on the MTA
rules. Some providers screen only local accounts, while others screen
everything. The difficulty may come in which MTA and SA integration
method.
I'll give you an example: If you're running CommuniGate Pro as the MTA
and using CGPSA, one of the two main integration apps for CommuniGate
Pro, you basically can't scan forwarders if you enable user or
domain-based settings. The reason for this is that the destination
address is resolved prior to scanning the message. So you'd have to
apply global settings to messages that weren't destined for local
accounts since they resolve to external domains like AOL, HotMail,
Yahoo, or whatever. In addition to that there are probably other
customers whose addresses would resolve to those domains, so they can't
simply allow you to determine what gets scanned and which rules are
applied since it would affect others. I'm sure something could be done
to implement per-user settings based on the hosted address, but it would
require programming changes to CGPSA.
So, I don't know which MTA or integration app your provider runs. But
this would be something that you'd have to discuss with them.
HTH,
Bret
RE: Getting Spamassasin to work.
Posted by "DuBois, Joseph" <Jo...@childrens.harvard.edu>.
First, thanks all that sent me help to get a test message to work. I was
able to successfully get SA to trigger.
It appears that SA is only currently working on my local mail accounts
and not the alias/forward emails.
So what I have is an Hosting provider which hosts my domain, that I
setup alias emails for myself and others which then forwards the emails
onto their local ISP providers email account.
So is SA not going to work for me? Or is there an option that I need to
talk to for my hosting provider to get it to work on forwarders?
Thanks
spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.1.4
running on Perl version 5.8.7
At 03:36 PM 8/28/2006, you wrote:
>Ok.
>
>Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck.
>My hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running
>fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two,
>which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite the Subject
>on any Spam with a new subject with the score.
>
>So now I need to know what email I can send myself which will set off
>spamassassin so that I can see if it is working properly?
Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.
Posted by Evan Platt <ev...@espphotography.com>.
At 03:36 PM 8/28/2006, you wrote:
>Ok.
>
>Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck.
>My hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is
>running fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the
>following two, which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should
>rewrite the Subject on any Spam with a new subject with the score.
>
>So now I need to know what email I can send myself which will set
>off spamassassin so that I can see if it is working properly?
The SpamAssassin GTUBE.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/
Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.
Posted by jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>.
It appears to be pretty obvious that whatever is running SpamAssassin
is overwriting anything SpamAssassin is doing to the email. I suggest
you look into the part of your mail path that calls SpamAssassin.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "DuBois, Joseph" <Jo...@childrens.harvard.edu>
Ok.
Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My
hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running
fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two,
which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite the Subject
on any Spam with a new subject with the score.
So now I need to know what email I can send myself which will set off
spamassassin so that I can see if it is working properly?
I found the lists of tests from the URL below, but need an email that
will trigger a subject rewrite. I tried sending one that had a ton of
junk words which should have triggered the rewrite, but it never arrived
(think my work email server might have filtered it out).
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html
spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.1.4
running on Perl version 5.8.7
required_score 1
rewrite_header Subject Rated SPAM-Junk-This _SCORE(00)_
Joseph DuBois, Lead Application Specialist
Application Standards & Specialty Projects
Children's Hospital Boston
joseph.dubois@childrens.harvard.edu
Phone:617-919-4543
Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.
Posted by Rick Macdougall <ri...@ummm-beer.com>.
DuBois, Joseph wrote:
> Ok.
>
> Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My
> hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running
> fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two,
> which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite the Subject
> on any Spam with a new subject with the score.
>
> So now I need to know what email I can send myself which will set off
> spamassassin so that I can see if it is working properly?
>
> I found the lists of tests from the URL below, but need an email that
> will trigger a subject rewrite. I tried sending one that had a ton of
> junk words which should have triggered the rewrite, but it never arrived
> (think my work email server might have filtered it out).
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html
>
>
> spamassassin -V
> SpamAssassin version 3.1.4
> running on Perl version 5.8.7
>
>
> required_score 1
> rewrite_header Subject Rated SPAM-Junk-This _SCORE(00)_
>
Hi,
I just sent you one from my gmail account with the gtube string in the body.
Regards,
Rick