[Mimedefang] same message different results depending on sending mechanism.

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Thu May 6 15:30:44 EDT 2004


I would say that everything is probably correct as the different mechanisms
are triggering different tests that score the email higher or lower for
SpamAssassin.

Try sending something that has like a 100+ SPAM score to start to test with.

KAM


> Sent spam filled message via sendmail CL from an external machine and it
> got filtered and discarded as expected.

> Sent same message via yahoo pop account to same sendmail machine and it
> got filtered but not discarded.  I replicated this several times.  The
> message is always filtered and discarded if I send via telnet CL either
> locally or remotely.  I noticed that in the first "CL" instance the the
> msgid included my gateway while in the second "POP" instance" it
> included the initial mail gateway.  But, in either case it's forwarding
> this message to an external user aliased from a local user.



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