Re: -r option

[Tony Shadwick]

Well, I definitely have the headers...and I'm passing -r10.  Yet, I'm
still getting mail with scores as high as 25.  That shouldn't be
happening...it shows up with Spam-Status YES, and the Subject is
re-written per my setup...

Tony Shadwick
Manager of Internet Services
Strategic Technology Group

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Mar 16), Jeff Powell said:
> > Interesting... I am also using SpamAssassin 2.5.  I did not try using
> > the -r option until after I upgraded to it.
> >
> > Does the -r option merely pass a flag to SpamAssassin, or does it do
> > something internal to the milter?  Perhaps the option has changed in
> > SA. I'll have to review the documentation.  I know several options
> > are different in 2.50, I had to make some changes when I upgraded.
>
> -r tells the milter to tell sendmail to reject a message if SA has
> scored it above the number given (whether SA actually tagged it as spam
> or not).  If you run spamass-milter with a debug level of 1, you should
> see lines saying "SA score: 10", and "Rejecting", showing the score it
> extracted from the SA headers, and whether it decided to reject the
> message or not.
>
> I'm running SA 2.50 here and -r works fine.  It does rely on the
> X-Spam-Status: header, though, so if you have SA configured not to add
> that, then -r has nothing to get the score from.
>
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