* Noel Jones is quoted & my replies are inline below : > At 05:18 PM 1/29/2007, Troy Piggins wrote: >>* 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).
Ok, thanks for the clarification. > 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. Aah, amavisd-release - that looks like what I am after. I'll look into that. Thanks. -- Troy Piggins ,-O (o- O All your sigs are belong to us. http://piggo.com/~troy O ) //\ O RLU#415538 `-O V_/_ OOO hackerkey://v3sw5HPUhw5ln4pr6OSck1ma9u6LwXm5l6Di2e6t5MGSRb8OTen4g7OPa3Xs7MIr8p7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
