SpamAssassin

[Andrew Wilson]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:18:08AM +0100, Duggie wrote:
> On (30/05/02 10:34), Andrew Wilson wrote:
> > How many of you are using SpamAssassin?
> > 
> > Have any of you noticed it throwing away mail?
> > 
> > Is this throwing away mail thing only affecting me, or is it just I'm
> > the only one who cares about it?
> 
> I'm using SpamAssassin. You speak of 'throwing away mail'. In dealing
> with spam (or mail which looks like spam) SpamAssassin can rewrite the
> message (to include a summary of it's spam scoring) and then save it in 
> a separate folder. That's how I'm using it. Are you storing your spam
> messages or are you always throwing them away? I wouldn't recommend
> throwing them away, at least not until you're certain it is only
> flagging spam messages. I find it good to monitor them in case I would
> encounter a false-positive.

It's while it's supposed to be rewriting them that it's throwing them
away.  It appears to have problems rewriting MIME mail.  so if it finds
a MIME formatted mail that it thinks is spam, it tries to rewrite it and
the script dies horribly.

Yes, I am trying to keep a copy of stuff it flags, that's when it
breaks.  Do you keep a log file by any chance?  here's a snippet from
mine, the first mesage it threw away, the sencond one it delivered.


161(new): ------------------------------ new run at Mon May 27 11:51:05 2002
165(new):    From: Dave Wilson <dw at botanicus.net>
166(new):      To: Belfast Linux User Group <blug at lists.blackstar.co.uk>
167(new): Subject: [BLUG] E-mail leakage & this list
161(new): ------------------------------ new run at Mon May 27 11:58:36 2002
165(new):    From: Dave Wilson <dw at botanicus.net>
166(new):      To: blug at lists.blackstar.co.uk
167(new): Subject: Re: [BLUG] E-mail leakage & this list
287(accept): accepting to /home/andrew/Mail/inbox/
335(accept): Exiting with status DELIVERED = 0
161(new): ------------------------------ new run at Mon May 27 12:00:04 2002

andrew
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