[Mailman-Users] spam rule not stopping

[Mark Sapiro]

Martin S wrote:
>>
>> 2007/8/4, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>:
>> >
>> > Martin S wrote:
>> > >
>> > >X-Spam-Level: xxxx
>> > >
>> > >in my spam rule 1 under Privacy options. Still Mailman doesn't stop
>> > mail
>> > >directed to the maillist with a score of 8+.
>> > >What's up with that?
>> >
>> >
>> > What is the action for this rule?
>> >
>> > With default spamassassin settings (which uses an asterisk (*), not an
>> > x), I would use the following regexp (they are case insensitive).
>> >
>> > ^x-spam-level: \*\*\*\*
>> >
>> > to match any X-Spam-Level: header that has 4 or more asterisks. See
>> > <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html>.
>> >
>> > I have "Discard" as the action. Changed to your suggested syntax, I'll
>> see if things improve.
>
>
>
>Apparently it doesn't - I still get highly classed spam mail on the list.
>(X-Spam-Level is over 7)


Are you using method 2) of
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.023.htp>,
(i.e. the SpamAssassin.py handler as described at
<http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/>)?

If so, and if you have installed it as described, you can't use
header_filter_rules to catch spamassassin flagged messages because the
documentation says to put

GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')

in mm_cfg.py which processes the message through spamassassin after
header_filter_rules have been processed. If you want to apply
header_filter_rules to the spamassassin processed message, you need

GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(0, 'SpamAssassin')

instead.

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