[TriLUG] procmail/spamassasin question

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:57, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>   Is there some certain set of circumstances that would cause spamc to
> completely skip a message?  Or is there a particular set of circumstances
> where spamc won't make any marks on a message?  I was expecting that spamc
> would make a mark on all messages it examined, either to say X-Spam-Status:
> Yes or X-Spam-Status: No...  More and more spam is slipping through lately
> (which is to be expected, I suppose), but a lot of it has no sa headers at
> all, which almost suggests it's not getting scanned.  Here's the juicy bits
> of my /etc/procmailrc file; maybe someone will see something wrong with it?

Sometimes spamc/spamd itself will refuse to scan a message, and return
it to procmail without adding the headers.  This could be due to large
size; huge messages are sometimes skipped because it can really bog-down
the pattern-matching within spamd.  I think there is a setting for this
in /etc/mail/spamassasin/local.cf, but a quick look through perldoc
Mail::SpamAssasin:Conf isn't revealing it, so maybe I'm hallucinating.

Also make sure you don't have any other settings that might be causing
the headers not to be set -- there are a lot of options on what to do
with the headers.

Jeremy

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