stupid spamassassin tricks

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Craig White wrote:
> slugging through an awkward issue with spamassassin on my home server.
> 
> I am using fetchmail to get mail from my ISP - who in essence, has
> already accepted delivery.
> 
> I have an email in my box which fetchmail keeps retrieving and
> spamassassin is rejecting it - which is kind of an endless loop.
> 
> Specifically, I am running spamassassin & spamass-milter (milter via
> sendmail).
> 
> I currently have the following options to spamd set...
> 
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
> SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -H -L -x -u smmsp"
> 
> hoping that the '-L' option would serve the purpose...it hasn't
> 
> Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a
> way of snowballing.

SpamAssassin is not the one rejecting the emails, it must be 
spamass-milter.  So setting options for spamd is not going to help you. 
  I'd remove -L, and let it do non-local tests too (obviously, when 
running fetchmail you do have internet connection up and running). 
Check settings for spamass-milter.  Since spam emails are already 
delivered to your ISP, and than transferred to your PC, you might as 
well simply filter them out (to separate folder, or /dev/null), instead 
of rejecting them.

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