Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin: Ignoring setup ???

[Korthrun]

On 5/30/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using spamassassin in combination with exim and Emacs/Mew to
> handle my mails.
>
> Everything seems to work well. Spamassassin recognizes spam and write
> a
>
>    X-Spam_score: 5.1
>    X-Spam_score_int: 51
>    X-Spam_bar: +++++
>    X-Spam_report: Spam detection software, running on the system
> "solfire", has identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The
> original message  has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't
> spam) or label        similar future email.  If you have any questions,
> see   the administrator of that system for details.   Content
> preview:  Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Mr.Bob Watts, [...]     Content analysis details:   (5.1 points, 5.0required)  pts rule name              description  ----
> ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
> 1.2 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS          Subject is all capitals       0.9DEAR_FRIEND            BODY: Dear Friend? That's not very dear!
> 1.2 BLANK_LINES_70_80      BODY: Message body has 70-80% blank lines
> 0.5 DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE     RBL: Envelope sender in abuse.rfc-ignorant.org
> 1.3 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net  [Blocked
> - see <http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?207.178.136.150 !
> >]     0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_1          Appears to be advance fee fraud
> (Nigerian 419)
>
>
> -field into the header of suspicious mails (exact output depends on
> the spam contents itsself).
>
> Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to convince Mew to scan not
> only the "official" mail header parts like "To:", "From:" and such
> but also any other entry in the header.
>
> What remains is: I have to look for spam myself and being "happy",
> that spamassassin has judged this or that mail as spam also.
>
> It would be nice, if spamassassin would put a "***SPAM***" directly
> into the "Subject:"-field, which can be scanned by Mew.
>
> In /etc/spamassassin/local.cf I found the following entry:
>
>     #   Add *****SPAM***** to the Subject header of spam e-mails
>     #
>     rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM*****
>     add-header
>
> but.....it seems to achieve nothing.
>
> Do I have to "enable" this somewhere else? Or why is spamassassin
> silently ignoring my wishes.
>
> Am I spam mysself ? ;) ;O))
>
> I would be hapy about any hint about this problem!
> Kind regards,
> Meino Cramer
>
>
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>
Did you install spam assassin from emerge, CPAN, or other source?
My CPAN version looks for /etc/mail/spamassassin/* for example.
If you do
#vi `which spamd`
you can see where it is looking for the config files.

Might be a good start.

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