Topic: spamchecking for a delegate mailserver

[swissis]

There is a delegate exchange server behind my sme server.
Is spam assasin filtering all the mail that passes through? Or what do i have to do accomplish this?

[JonB]

Swissis,

The answer to your question is yes, so long as you have Spam Filtering enabled.

Check your email headers. You should have X-Spam-Check-By: hostname

Jon

[swissis]

what mail is exactly classified as spam? i tried to send myself an email with the word (substitute by the word for the blue pills) in it but nothing happend.

[JonB]

Once again check the email headers and you will see how the email scores in spamassassin. However sending an email with just word viagra by itself will not score very highly at all. It is a legitimate word and will only trigger the DRUGS_ERECTILE rule. There needs to be a combination of rules that add up to the trigger point that you have set, by default 5, to start subject tagging.

If you however were to send an email with the word v.i.a.g.r.a ( i.e obfusticated) in it then it will tag it as spam as it now triggers the DRUGS_ERECTILE,DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU,GAPPY_SUBJECT,SUBJECT_FUZZY_VPILL rules


Go to http://spamassassin.apache.org to find out how spamassassin works.

Jon