Noah wrote:
> SA 3.1.7
> FreeBSD 4.11
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to get better understanding as to why spamassassin is
> behaving the way it is.
>
> So I see that autolearn=no. I thought by default autolearn is turned
> on. I dont have this turned off in the system-wide configuration nor
> the user specific configuration. Both files appear below. Also I
> want more verbose output. Is there a way that spamassassin can place
> the scores next to each of the tests that were found positive.
>
> --- snip ----
>
> *X-Spam-Checker-Version:* SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on
> <hostname>
> *X-Spam-Level:* ****
> *X-Spam-Status:* No, score=4.6 required=5.0
> tests=BAYES_99,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,
> NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.1.7
>
> --- snip ---
Bayes will not autolearn a message unless some specific criteria are met.
If those criteria are not met, you will see "autolearn=no".
For more info, see this page:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutolearningNotWorking
SA will give you a more verbose report for Spam messages automatically. If
you want that same report on all messages, add this to your local.cf or
user_prefs file:
add_header all Report _REPORT_
> here is the system-wide configuration file
>
> ----- snip -----
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/mail//spamassassin/local.cf
> # This is the right place to customize your installation of
> SpamAssassin. #
> # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
> # tweaked.
> #
>
###########################################################################
> #
> # rewrite_subject 0
> # report_safe 1
> # trusted_networks 212.17.35.
>
> ------- snip -------
There is nothing here, it is all comments.
You might want to configure the trusted_networks. It will work for some
people with the default auto-guess setup, but it is safest to configure it
manually.
> this is the user specific configuration:
>
> ---- snip ----
>
> # cat ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
> # SpamAssassin user preferences file. See 'perldoc
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf'
> # for details of what can be tweaked.
>
###########################################################################
>
> # How many points before a mail is considered spam.
> # required_score 5
>
> # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns,
> so # "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or "*.domain.net" will all
> work. # whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> # Add your own customised scores for some tests below. The default
> scores are
> # read from the installed spamassassin rules files, but you can
> override them
> # here. To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to
> # http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests.html .
> #
> # score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn
>
> # Speakers of Asian languages, like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will
> almost
> # definitely want to uncomment the following lines. They will switch
> off some
> # rules that detect 8-bit characters, which commonly trigger on mails
> using CJK
> # character sets, or that assume a western-style charset is in use.
> #
> # score HTML_COMMENT_8BITS 0
> # score UPPERCASE_25_50 0
> # score UPPERCASE_50_75 0
> # score UPPERCASE_75_100 0
>
>
> ---- snip ---
Same thing, there is nothing here.
--
Bowie