On 5/13/2014 6:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Monday, May 12, 2014 11:13:53 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: > Send a gtube message to one of your email addresses. If SA is working > properly, it should be delivered to your spam folder. > > http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/ I'm sorry, I have no idea what this test does, or is supposed to do. When I send email from my laptop (using KMail) containing the string in the above URL, I simply get a message saying --------------------- Failed to transport message. The message content was not accepted. The server responded: "Message refused" --------------------- As far as I can see this message was never seen, or processed, by SpamAssassin (running on my server, not my laptop). It does not appear in the spam folder on my server.
What you are doing is sending a message with a string that will cause SA to flag it as spam. This is a standard test to determine if SA is working properly. SA should mark the message as spam. What happens to it after that depends on your setup. If I read your config correctly, it looks like it is supposed to be sent to a spam folder. Based on the error message you copied, it looks like something else in the mail stream caught the string and refused the email before it made it to SA.
Try sending the message directly to the server if possible. What I do for testing is set up a new mail account with the outgoing server set to send directly to the new server. Then send a message from that account. You can use this same setup with the EICAR string to test your anti-virus program as well.
-- Bowie
