> > Mike Sassaman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm new to this list and to SpamAssassin, and I'm have some > questions that > > will hopefully be easy for you all, but have been giving me > problems. > > > > Background: I've been running a Sendmail relay on OpenBSD > for the last > > couple years for a smallish company. The only thing this > machine does is > > forward to an Exchange server - there are no mailboxes on > it (besides root). > > I'm not a Sendmail expert but it's been doing the job. > > > > So recently I've installed SMTP-Vilter and SpamAssassin > 3.0.4 from OpenBSD's > > ports. Now, according to the SA wiki and most of the > things I've read, my > > grandmother should be able to install SA and stop most spam > out of the box. > > However, this has not been my experience. It appears to be > 'working', in > > the sense that headers are added to messages, for example: > > > > X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.9 > > X-SMTP-Vilter-Spam-Backend: spamd > > X-Spam-Score: 7.3 > > X-Spam-Level: ******* > > X-Spam-Threshold: 5.0 > > X-Spam-Probability: 1.5 > > X-Spam-Status: spam > > > > The message with the above headers had its subject > successfully rewritten as > > one would expect. > > > > However, the vast majority of spam we receive gets a very > low score, often > > negative, and is not marked. Simply lowering the threshold > will not help me > > because the spam scores often lower than legit mail. > > > > So obviously I'm doing something horribly and stupidly > wrong, but what? > > > > More specifically - for troubleshooting, how can I add > headers to each > > message showing what SA rules were hit? How can I view the > contents of the > > auto-whitelist? Is it bayes that is broken? Can anyone > suggest some > > actions I can take to troubleshoot? > > > Post a sample list of rules that hit one of these negative > scoring spams. > Without a list of hits there's no really way to say what's > going wrong.
I'd love to! Could you tell me how to find which rules are being hit for a given message? That information does not appear in the headers added to my messages like it seems to for other people. Can I enable that somewhere?
