snide

Good job, BigJohn.

I've recently needed to implement this due to a large increase on my mother's account.

Does anyone know if this message means that the rules are choking on a specific email?

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Snide-

that error indicates that one of the messages in your SPAM box has improper encoding. Dont' worry. If you notice, you'll see that even when that happens SA still learns messages:
John

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Hi, I tried once again to set up SpamAssassin and followed these great instructions by Bigjohn. In spite of my best efforts SA does not seem to work.

I never get any flagged mail (mail with “***SPAM***” in the subject) and it seems I still get the same amount og spam as before.

I get reports from the cron jobs three times a week that look like this:
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Learning SPAM
Processing /home/MY_ACCOUNT/mail/MY_DOMAIN.is/MY_MAIL_ACCOUNT/SPAM
Learned from 69 message(s) (187 message(s) examined).
Learning HAM
Processing /home/MY_ACCOUNT/mail/MY_DOMAIN.is/MY_MAIL_ACCOUNT/HAM
Learned from 44 message(s) (66 message(s) examined).
Done
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These are the settings in my user_prefs:

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# Enable the Bayes system
use_bayes 1
# Enable or disable network checks
skip_rbl_checks 0
use_razor2 1
use_dcc 1
use_pyzor 1

required_score 4.5
rewrite_header subject ***SPAM***
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Can anyone figure out why I never see flagged spam?

Thanks!
Siggi

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bkk

Siggi,

Try these settings. I had the same problem and if you scroll up a few threads you'll see a couple of good suggestions.

Thanks,
BKK

shogun

bkk,

This is already my setting.

You can see a screenshot of my SA settings here:
http://www.skodun.is/myndir/sa.gif

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mobiuseek

I noticed from your learnspam script output that you are using one email address, so I am assuming that you don't have the "spamtrap[at]*****.***" addy. Did you set a filter to move/discard marked spam? If so, what level is the filter set at? If it is the same level or lower than your "required_score" setting, then all the marked spam is going to be discarded(I'm assuming that is the setting b/c you don't have another email addy to move the spam to).

To test whether the rewrite_header function is working, either raise the filter level so it is above 4.5, or you can try lowering the "required_score" to, let's say 3, to see if it is working.

I know I'm making a few assumptions here, so take this advice w/ a grain of salt(ie I don't know if you have an email filter that is set so low that it will discard legit emails that you want).

shogun

"I am assuming that you don't have the "spamtrap[at]*****.***" addy."

You are correct. How do I do that?

"Did you set a filter to move/discard marked spam? If so, what level is the filter set at?"


Yes. This is my filter level:
$message_headers contains "********" Discard

Thats above 4.5 right?

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shogun

It seems that SA is now working. I added the spamtrap[at]mydomain.com to the mailfilters and now finally I see some marked spam. I still get alot of unmarked spammail in my inbox but I guess it takes some time for SA to learn what is spam and therfore should be marked and thrown away.

Thanks for your help!

Siggi

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tmac2104

It looks like I am not getting any X-SPAM levels in my headers.... why is that? anybody know?