[SA-exim] Spam being let through.

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:29, Timothy Arnold wrote:
> Has anyone seen this before? The spam is being let through, even though
> the score is over 5.
>
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on av-1
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,FUZZY_OCR_KNOWN_HASH,
>     FUZZY_OCR_WRONG_EXTENSION,HTML_10_20,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY
>     autolearn=no version=3.1.7
>
> Here is the part of the exim configuration which should drop the message
>
> # Reject spam messages with score over 5, using an extra condition.
> drop    message = This message has a spam score of $spam_score points
>        spam = nobody:true
>        condition = ${if >={$spam_score_int}{50}{1}{0}}

Er, If you use SA-Exim to call SpamAssassin, you have to configure the 
thresholds in sa-exim.conf. SA-Exim runs *after* all the ACLs. If you use the 
built-in content scanning ACL conditions and variables you don't need 
SA-Exim.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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   Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
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