My intention is to observe false negatives ( i.e. spam seen as ham) and
increase the score of one or more of the tests in an effort to cause
additional spam to be detected.
I am using a hosting service where spamassassin configuration is
updatable by the cPanel system.
I can also modify ~/.spamassassin/user_perfs directly.
When I list /etc there is no mail directory (however I believe I am
not looking at the true /etc )
There is a /usr/share/spamassassin/user_prefs.template file which
seems to be used to initialize
~/.spamassassin/user_perfs ( after removing #* records ).
exim post processes messages and is configured to place messages with
*SPAM* in the subject to
~/mail/filtered/spam.
When I modify ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to include:
report_contact postmas...@real-world-systems.com
report_hostname Real-World-Systems.com
required_score
spam messages subject are correctly modified to indicate *SPAM* and
the X-SPAM-Report is correctly inserted with the revised hostname and
contact and
includes the message preview and ((note 4.0 required))
" Content analysis details: (4.0 points, 4.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
0.9 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dyna
...
X-Spam-Flag: YES
The report is preceded by:
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.0
X-Spam-Score: 40
X-Spam-Bar: ++++
There is no X-Spam-Checker-Version header which the documentation at
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html
says cannot be removed.
THE PROBLEMS:
1)Messages that are not flagged as spam have no indication that they
were processed by spamassassin
there are no X-Spam headers
2) adding
add_header all _TESTS(,)_
has no effect on ham or spam.
3) adding
add_header all DGG DGG
add_header ham DGG DGG
add_header spam DGG DGG
has no effect on either spam or ham
After 2 weeks of trouble tickets, my hosting company said that I would
have to upgrade to have these work.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
