[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin and fetchmail take 2

David T Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Fri Jun 6 18:46:02 EDT 2003


I've brought this up a few weeks ago but unfortunately I didn't get any 
good ways to resolve this problem, so here is more detail.  I have a POP 
account that I collect via fetchmail and run through my local MIMEDefang 
install.   The real quirk is that the spam is able to get through 
SpamAssassin for some reason.  Currently, I drop messages that score 
over 10 and flag at 5.  I threw in an additional log (spamdebug) which 
records right after the SpamAssassin check to show what the score turned 
out.  For my normal mailing list stuff etc it's all in the -7 range and 
is fine.  Here is a log snippet for one that got through.  If I'm 
reading it right, and I think I am ;), the message comes in, gets 
flagged at a 14.5, is marked to be dropped, but is then delivered.  My 
filter is practically stock. I do not have any exceptions for localhost 
or the like.  Does MIMEDefang have provisions to allow messages sent 
from localhost to not be dropped?

Jun  6 15:37:17 bender sendmail[19166]: h56JbG4Z019166: 
from=<1epmo9mx6b34 at compuserve.com>, size=4183, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<r1g2k-4$9s--455ssd4w9cqa2q6 at g2n.7h4uy>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, 
relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jun  6 15:37:18 bender mimedefang.pl[18841]: 
MDLOG,h56JbG4Z019166,spamdebug,127.0.0.1,14.5,<1epmo9mx6b34 at compuserve.com>,<dhollis at localhost>,Re: 
Prescriptions from the comfort of your home  fyh
Jun  6 15:37:18 bender mimedefang.pl[18841]: 
MDLOG,h56JbG4Z019166,spam,14.5,127.0.0.1,<1epmo9mx6b34 at compuserve.com>,<dhollis at localhost>,Re: 
Prescriptions from the comfort of your home  fyh
Jun  6 15:37:18 bender mimedefang.pl[18841]: 
MDLOG,h56JbG4Z019166,spam_drop,14.5,,<1epmo9mx6b34 at compuserve.com>,<dhollis at localhost>,Re: 
Prescriptions from the comfort of your home  fyh
Jun  6 15:37:18 bender mimedefang.pl[18841]: filter: h56JbG4Z019166:  drop=1
Jun  6 15:37:18 bender sendmail[19166]: h56JbG4Z019166: Milter add: 
header: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / 
mimedefang)
Jun  6 15:37:38 bender sendmail[19168]: h56JbG4Z019166: 
to=<dhollis at localhost>, delay=00:00:21, xdelay=00:00:20, mailer=local, 
pri=34444, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent







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