SpamAssassin Reporting to User

[sebpayne]

After a hard afternoon's work, I have both ClamAV, SpamAssassin and Sendmail working with Scalix. However, I have a few points:

a.) Emails which are marked as spam are being sent to the system root's user box which means I have to access them using Mutt. Is there a way to get these to got to the user they were intended for incase it wasn't spam?

b.) If any messages are going to be sent to root from spamd/sendmail, can they go to postmaster or sxadmin?

Thanks

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Seb,

For item a) is it all spam or just spam with a certain score? If it's the former, then it sounds like you've set the -b parameter for the spamass-milter and told it to redirect all tagged spam to root. If it's the latter, then you may have your spamass-milter -r parameter set too low. Could you check your spamass-milter startup and see what you have set to? In general, you want to have it set high enough (like 12) so that blatant spam will get rejected, but anything below that (including false positives) will get sent to the user. The user can then filter those messages based on the spamassassin header tags.

For item b) if it's rejected messages (from the -r parameter above), then it should already be going to postmaster. However, by default, postmaster is aliased to root which is likely why it's being sent there. You can change that by editing your /etc/aliases file and changing the alias to something else or if you've defined postmaster as an address in Scalix, you can just delete the entry from /etc/aliases. Once done, don't forget to rebuild the aliases.db or just restart sendmail which should rebuild it automatically.

Thanks,
Rachel