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Reason why SpamAssassin detected message as spam?

jmginer
Hello, in order to improve the content of the e-mail and reduce the spam score, it's possible to see the values that SpainAssasin has taken to determine that a e-mail is considered as spam? In /var/log/exim_mainlog I only see: "SpamAssassin as xxx detected message as spam (5.4)" Thanks!

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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, You can view the header of an individual email in your email or webmail client to see information about how SpamAssassin scored a message. Thank you.
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  • jmginer
    Hello, You can view the header of an individual email in your email or webmail client to see information about how SpamAssassin scored a message. Thank you.

    Sorry, I forgot to say that I mean on outgoing messages. On Exim config, I have:
    Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on defined Apache SpamAssassin" score = 5
    So, the message is not sent. Is for this reason that I want to know how spamassasin has scored the message, to know what I need to modify to ensure that it will delivered. There is some option to show SpamAssasin logs? or add more verbosity on exim_mainlog? Thanks!
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  • SB-Nick
    Hi, I can't think of an easier way than calling spamassassin directly and see the score printed on console, just save the message source (headers and body) somewhere in your server and run: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/spamassassin -D < /path/to/the/spam.mail
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  • jmginer
    just save the message source (headers and body)

    How? if the mail is refused by the server...
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  • SB-Nick
    You can retrieve the email you tried to send by going to your Sent folder for either POP3/Webmail, it should be there despite the mail server refusing it from sending.
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  • jmginer
    You can retrieve the email you tried to send by going to your Sent folder for either POP3/Webmail, it should be there despite the mail server refusing it from sending.

    That depends if the aplication used to send the e-mail it's configured to store a copy of the e-mail in the "Sent" folder. Wich is not my case, because my customer is using some strange application based in Windows with a SMTP configuration and don't stores any copy in the Sent folder.
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  • cPanelMichael
    You could check future messages by enabling the "Archive" feature in cPanel for the account facing the issue to ensure a copy of one of the affected messages is stored on the account: Archive - Documentation - cPanel Documentation Thank you.
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  • jmginer
    You could check future messages by enabling the "Archive" feature in cPanel for the account facing the issue to ensure a copy of one of the affected messages is stored on the account:
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  • cPanelMichael
    The e-mail message never appears in the archive, because is refused by the server. This is the reason that I opened this post...

    Hello, Thank you for clarifying the issue. As I understand, you are seeking the data that's typically included in the message header of an email that is scanned by SpamAssassin. Exim doesn't include this information in the message header if it's rejected at SMTP time. However, you can view the general message header information (e.g. subject, user-agent, content type) for messages that Exim rejects in the following log file: /var/log/exim_rejectlog Thank you.
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  • jmginer
    Hello, we're still fighting with this kind of issues. Please, include some option to store Spamassassin debug logs for outgoing e-mails. If an e-mail is discarded because is cosidered as spam, will be good to know the exact reason, something like to know the rule names that the e-mail filter hits:
    pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 5.0 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100% 1.2 URIBL_ABUSE_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the ABUSE SURBL blocklist 0.6 URIBL_PH_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the PH SURBL blocklist 4.5 URIBL_DBL_SPAM Contains a spam URL listed in the Spamhaus DBL blocklist 0.1 URIBL_SBL_A Contains URL's A record listed in the Spamhaus SBL blocklist 1.6 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL's NS IP listed in the Spamhaus SBL blocklist 1.5 SPF_SOFTFAIL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (softfail) 1.0 BAYES_999 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100% 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Informational: message has unparseable relay lines 2.0 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, I encourage you to open a feature request for the option to retain that data via our feature request website: Submit A Feature Request Thank you.
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