How can I check why Spam Assassin applied a particular score?

Aaron Horsley

Question

Some email messages are flagged or rejected as spam, but I'm not sure why. Can I check how Spam Assassin is applying this score?

You can use the following command to read the rules applied.

su cpaneleximscanner -c '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/532/bin/spamassassin -D < /path/to/message' -s /bin/bash

You can also use spamc to check by running the following command:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/spamc < /path/to/message

Please note, that you will need to replace /path/to/message with the full path to the message to scan.