thanks for all your help it seems as thou it was a corrupt AWL database. I nuked it and everything seems to be fine.
I'm going to look more into smtp auth. Seems like such a simple way to lock down mail, and prevent relaying. For some reason I remember looking into smtp auth and deciding it wasn't right for us, but the reason escapes me right now. Thanks again Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 29.09.10 08:00, njjrdell wrote: >> one of our users at a remote location is having her mail trashed by >> spamassassin. >> >> Sep 28 12:48:43 nsmail spamd[199]: prefork: child states: II\n >> Sep 28 12:49:28 nsmail spamd[268]: spamd: connection from localhost >> [127.0.0.1] at port 50226\n >> Sep 28 12:49:28 nsmail spamd[268]: spamd: checking message >> <001101cb5f2d$1c3937b0$6629a...@traci> for (unknown):500\n >> Sep 28 12:49:29 nsmail spamd[268]: spamd: identified spam (288.2/5.0) for >> (unknown):500 in 1.2 seconds, 2345 bytes.\n >> Sep 28 12:49:29 nsmail spamd[268]: spamd: result: Y 288 - >> AWL,BAYES_40,DOS_OE_TO_MX,FAKE_REPLY_C >> scantime=1.2,size=2345,user=(unknown),uid=500,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=50226,mid=<001101cb5f2d$1c3937b0$6629a...@traci>,bayes=0.297864,autolearn=no\n >> >> I'm trying to track down why this message is getting such a high score. I >> have been trying to find were the DOS_OE_TO_MX rule is and what it's >> score >> is set to, but can't find it anywhere. > > DOS_OE_TO_MX triggers on mail send teom outlook express sdirectly to mail > servers. This can happen when you use your MX servers for "outgoing" mail > too and users don't use SMTP authentication. > > You can solve this by requiring the user to use SMTP auth, or work around > it > by adding the sending IP to trusted_networks. > > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > Micro$oft random number generator: 0, 0, 0, 4.33e+67, 0, 0, 0... > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/DOS_OE_TO_MX-tp29839497p29850386.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.