Spamass-milter is not rejecting emails

[souperdad]

I had configured spamass-milter to reject emails with a spam rating higher that 15 using the following line in the /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter file:

EXTRA_FLAGS="-r 15"


For some reason it is allowing my to re-write the headers but it's not rejecting the emails. Anyone have any idea why?

[ianare]

run this:

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tail -f /var/log/maillog

and watch it for a bit... You should see messages about spamassassin blocking stuff - if the rating is high enough. You may not be getting messages that register at 15 or above.

Otherwise try restarting spamasssassin,spamass-milter, and sendmail. Just for good measure...

One thing I noticed with my install was a panic message saying it could not store the blocked message. I had to

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vi /etc/mail/aliases

and added

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postmaster: spam

where 'spam' is 'spam@mydomain.com' - a special account used solely for spam pickup.
This worked for me, but there are most likely better ways.

[souperdad]

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run this:
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tail -f /var/log/maillog

and watch it for a bit... You should see messages about spamassassin blocking stuff - if the rating is high enough. You may not be getting messages that register at 15 or above.

Otherwise try restarting spamasssassin,spamass-milter, and sendmail. Just for good measure...
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I've done that I can see that spamassassin is marking them but it's not actually blocking them. It does successfully rewrite the headers but I wanted it to block emails with a rating higher than 15. It was working for a while but for some reason, not anymore. I've tried restarting spamasssassin,spamass-milter, and sendmail, I've also gone so far as to reboot the server. All to no avail.