> On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
>
>> I recently took over admin duty for a mailserver. The system I'm taking
>>  over is a FreeBSD mailserver with SpamAssassin 3.0.2 running.
>> Unfortunately, a significant amount of spam gets through, and I think I
>>  know the reason.
>>
>> The spam that gets through is marked with [Suspected Spam]. Spamassasin
>>  says that it is possible spam and attaches the actual message as an
>> attachment. The number of points is always ridiculously high--
>> generally
>
> SpamAssassin is only a tagging filter, not a delivery agent.  You need
> something else in the pipeline that checks the status lines after SA is
> finished and routes the mail appropriately.
>
> There is the chance that bayes_99 will trip on legit mail, but normally
> this only occurs if you haven't trained the bayesian database properly so
> that it has a good set of tokens representing ham and spam.
>
I see. So you're saying that the BAYES_99 mail that is being delivered is
due to the configuration of my MTA (Postfix), not SpamAssassin?

I checked my Postfix config files (main.cf, master.cf) and neither have
anything about it, so I would think that SpamAssassin is the one deciding
on which spam to drop and which spam to let through. If that isn't the
case, any idea what file I need to edit to block the BAYES_99 spam?

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