Nathan, > I have amavis-new running with clamAV and spamassasin, all is good, > and we have been altering settings chipping away at the spam getting > through to the users, but now the majority is gone, I have noticed > the remainder of the spam is showing no spam score.. but have this header > X-Amavis-Alert: BANNED, message contains part: multipart/mixed | > application/zip,.zip,Fees_2008-2009.zip | > .exe,.exe-ms,Fees_2008-2009.doc.exe > or similar the business get a lot of attachments, and zips, and exe's > so we allow all banned to pass to the end user.. but I suspect that these > spam mails would be spotted by spamassasin, if they were given the > chance!!! > so I guess what I am asking is...
> 1) is it correct that if the banned spots a mail, that it doesn't go > onto span scoring? No, at least not since version 2.5.0 (a year and a half now since 2.5.0 came out). Spam scanning is still skipped in case of a virus, but not in case of a banned contents. All performed check results are then entered in a list of detected content types, and what happens next depends on per-recipient settings like *_lovers. The concept of a blocking contents category (intruduced with 2.5.0) now deals reasonably with cases where both a stronger contents category (like banned or virus) and a weaker one (like spam) are present, but the stronger is made to pass, so the weaker one becomes a blocking contents category, so its settings now apply. See more on the topic in release notes. > 2) can I tell it to spam check them anyway? It does check for spam. > 3) Since I don't Ban anything, could i disable that part, and then > it would pick up the spam score? Sure, if you want. Btw, banned checks are quite cheap to perform. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
