In general, the install of SpamAssassin is working. I am having a couple of small problems. Let me go back to those:
The Problems: Problem A - Scoring information does not show up in HAM e-mails. Problem B - Custom rules don't see to be applied. Problem C - SpamAssassin.exe and spamd.exe appear to score spam differently. Is a problem with my e-mail sample collection code. Thank you for pointing that. That process is getting revamped. The Platform: Here is specific information about the installation. Windows Server 2003 SpamAssassin 3.3.2 Perl 5.8.9 spamd.exe is running as a service spamd.exe is being called by ArGoSoft MailServer.Net (Vital piece of usage information I left off originally. Sorry about that.) Specifics about The Problems: Problem A In the etc\spamassassin\local.cf I've made the following line: add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_ Is this the configuration file I should be editing for this setting to be applied? Is there some way it could be overridden? Problem B In the etc\spamassassin\local.cf I've made the following lines: body LOCAL_FREESCORE360 /FreeScore360/ score LOCAL_FREESCORE360 5.0 describe LOCAL_FREESCORE360 Push e-mails that contain FreeScore360 to the top I believe I've created that custom rule correctly, but I'm not sure. Is there a better place for this custom rule to live in? Love, amber blog.stopped-motion.com <http://blog.stopped-motion.com/> From: Daniel Lemke [mailto:le...@jam-software.com] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 1:06 AM To: 'Amber Clark'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: ****SPAM**** (10.1 / 5.0) RE: Trouble shooting an installation of Spam Assassin for WindowsDate: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:50:01 -0700 Ah, I see. Well, if the mail server already supports SpamAssassin you should first try to connect them to each other. There should be anything like a hostname option in the configuration settings of the server. But please consider that this mailing list is intended for SpamAssassin specific questions, for detailed instructions on how to connect the ArgoSoft server you should refer to their official support. They will also need to tell you what the configuration of SpamAssassin has to look like. You need to know if default configuration is ok or if the mail server needs any special header information to be able to parse the SpamAssassin results. In case of SpamAssassin I'm pretty sure it's working fine. You can check that by using the GTUBE test mail (sample-spam.txt) that should reside in your installation directory. A 'spamassassin < sample-spam.txt' should give you a result like this: Received: from localhost by host.domain.com with SpamAssassin (version 3.3.2); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:57:50 +0200 From: Sender <sen...@example.net> To: Recipient <recipi...@example.net> Subject: Test spam mail (GTUBE) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:30:00 +0200 Message-Id: <gtube1.1010...@example.net> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on host.domain.com X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: ************************************************** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=1000.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,GTUBE,NO_RECEIVED, NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 .... That confirms that your SpamAssassin installation is basically working as intended. Regards, Daniel From: Amber Clark [mailto:am...@clarkzoo.org] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:50 PM To: Daniel Lemke; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: ****SPAM**** (10.1 / 5.0) RE: Trouble shooting an installation of Spam Assassin for WindowsDate: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:50:01 -0700 Thanks for replying, Daniel. Ultimately, once I feel comfortable with SpamAssassin and I'm confident that it's all working properly, I want to throw the switch so my mail server so the server rejects spam identified e-mail. The mail server is ArgoSoft Mail Server.Net which has built in support for SpamAssassin. _____ -------------------------------------------------------- JAM Software GmbH Managing Director: Joachim Marder Am Wissenschaftspark 26 * 54296 Trier * Germany Phone: +49 (0)651-145 653 -0 * Fax: +49 (0)651-145 653 -29 Commercial register number HRB 4920 (AG Wittlich) http://www.jam-software.com
