Re: Testing Amavis/SA

[Richard Ozer]

That's right.. It's a little tricky testing w/ Amavis.  Best thing to do is run amavisd 
with the DEBUG-SA switch, look for errors, and watch messages get processed.  Get a 
throwaway account and send an email with a GTUBE in it to force a high score.  Make sure 
you do that with a throwaway account... it'll blacklist it.  Main thing to check is that 
amavis knows the location of your central local.cf file and can find all your custom 
rules.  Amavis will not write spam headers until the score crosses the threshold you 
have set in amavisd.conf.

You may want to also consider adding clamd antivirus or one of the other antivirus 
products as well... it's a good way to take the virus processing load off your mail server.

RO
John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 04 February 2005 10:37 pm, Zain Memon wrote:
Hi.
I'm making a server to be put into a production environment with
postfix + razor + amavis + spamassassin, and I'm trying to make sure
its set up correctly. The test-messages are detected correctly, but
when I send myself an email with something like "FREE VIAGRA", it
passes as CLEAN. Is this normal?
Also, is there some way I can check what the score each message gets?
I've gone through the oogles of lines in "amavisd debug-sa", but I
don't find the score the message gets before it passes as clean.

Did you send if from an account on this mail server or from some
throw away account outside?
SA usually gives a modicum of trust to mail originating on its
own server...