[Mimedefang] inconsistent sa filtering

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Thu Aug 7 20:57:00 EDT 2003


> From: "Chambers, Dean" <deanc at ci.breckenridge.co.us>
> Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:53:46 -0600
> To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
> Subject: [Mimedefang] inconsistent sa filtering
> 
> I am running the latest versions of mimedefang and spamassassin on a RH9 box
> with sendmail 8.12.9. I am relaying all mail to a smart host (Exchange Server
> 2000). When I telnet to port 25 on the Linux box and send myself a message
> with some nasty words, I get the subject gets rewritten properly. When I send
> a message from Yahoo with the same content, nothing happens. Any ideas?
> 
> Dean 
> 
> 


Dean,

what to the message headers have in them? it's being scanned thru
MIMEDefang, correct?

do you have any logging setup for debugging purposes?

I personally got in the habit of writing X-Spam-Tests: headers for every
message (flagged or not by SA) with scores just so i could see what's
passing thru, what kind of scores they're getting and find potential reasons
why.  it's helped me to better understand the flow of messages thru MD
(since i started using it) and is really a good debugging tool.

also, having appropriate md_syslog calls to log debugging info is a good
idea too.

alan




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