At 05:18 PM 1/29/2007, Troy Piggins wrote: >[ Top-posting corrected ] >* Paul Barbeau is quoted & my replies are inline below : > > > >> I have a message that was falsely detected as spam[1]. I have > >> found the gzipped file in /var/virusmails/spam-xxxx.gz. > >> > >> Is there a simple way to retrieve it or pass it on to the > >> intended recipient, or do I just have to manually process it? > >> > >> I gunzipped it and tried to read it with mutt, but it does not > >> appear to be a legitimate email format. How do I make it so? > >> > >> [1] It was given a score of 8, but was legitimate mail! Not the > >> fault of amavis or spamassassin - the mail was extremely poorly > >> formed and included many spam-like words. > > > > What I do to release messages is the following (well something like it). > > > > zcat /var/virusmails/spam-xxxx.gz | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Thanks. I just tried that, but that message got detected as spam >again. I have pretty much a default amavis setup, so guess I'll >need to add someone to the whitelist :) Now more reading to see >how to do that.
It was detected as spam again because you have configured locally submitted mail to be scanned. (that's a common enough configuration, not necessarily an error). Rather than using sendmail, use a minimal smtp client. I like mini_sendmail. zcat /path/to/file | mini_sendmail -p 10025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some notes: - If the mail is multi-recipient, all the recipients will be listed in X-Envelope-To: headers in the quarantine file. You might want to clean those up before releasing the mail to protect BCC: privacy. - The above assumes postfix is listening on port 10025, which is the common setup. - It's probably easier to use amavisd-release, which does the cleanup for you. -- Noel Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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/
