[spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Colvin
I can't believe I sent the last message w/o a subject. Here it is again so the thread can be followed. Hey Sam. I'm experiencing something weird, and am hoping you can straighten me out. :-) Running QmailToaster, which uses SimScan to scan mail, SpamAssassin is not being invoked.

Re: [spamdyke-users] reject-identical-sender-recipient - how, it works?

2011-01-12 Thread BC
kudos to Eric. He is right - it is very counter intuitive. Spamdyke blocks 98.9% of spam and doing as Eric suggested got rid of another 1%. On 1/12/2011 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.org wrote: Another method of rejecting this sort of spam (forged from addresses) is to blacklist

Re: [spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Sam Clippinger
We've seen this before: http://www.mail-archive.com/spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org/msg02032.html Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good solution. spamdyke has to set the RELAYCLIENT variable in order to control relaying without interference from downstream filters, but simscan won't

Re: [spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Colvin
Did you try using Upper Case ALLOW (not shouting)? That's what's shown in the documentation. In any case, I would expect Spamdyke to show some sort of error if/when configuration parameters aren't quite kosher. No, because that's not what I'm seeing in the

Re: [spamdyke-users] reject-identical-sender-recipient - how, it works?

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Colvin
Yes... After seeing Eric post this a while back, I thought about it, and it's so glaringly obvious that this works so well... In my case, all my inbound mail comes into a group of servers, none of which should be being used by any of my users to send mail...So, anything coming into them,

Re: [spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Colvin
Ok Well, that explains it. :-) I'm going to pass on the patch, although I appreciate the effort. I'm not comfortable enough with Linux to patch stuff, at least not without some pretty good instructions and I'm trying to move away from having to patch new servers when I deploy them, thus

Re: [spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Shubert
You're correct. I didn't read it thoroughly. Sorry. -- -Eric 'shubes' On 01/12/2011 04:56 PM, Michael Colvin wrote: Did you try using Upper Case ALLOW (not shouting)? That's what's shown in the documentation. In any case, I would expect Spamdyke to show some sort of error if/when

Re: [spamdyke-users] SpamAssassin not getting Invoked

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Colvin
No problem! I appreciate the help over on the QMT list!   Michael J. Colvin NorCal Internet Services www.norcalisp.com   -Original Message- From: spamdyke-users-boun...@spamdyke.org [mailto:spamdyke-users- boun...@spamdyke.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent: Wednesday, January