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Outgoing spam score not available

Benito

Hi!

In Exim I have the options enabled to scan outgoing email and block it if the score is high. I had some cases of mass spam sending that were not blocked. To be able to adjust that value, I want to see what score a normal email gets and what score a spam one gets. In Mail Delivery Reports, the spam score for all outgoing messages does not appear, and for many incoming ones it doesn’t either. Could this be a bug, or am I looking in the wrong place?

 

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  • Benito

    Update. 

    I found the scores in the Exim logs. I realized my values were too high, so I lowered them to 5 and now it seems to be fine.

    Still, I’d like to know if there’s a way to see these scores without having to check the logs.

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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Hey hey!  There isn't really a better way to figure out the score other than the logs.  We do have some more detail here that you might find helpful:

    https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/4402534965655-How-to-find-the-descriptions-of-SpamAssassin-rules-to-help-understand-why-a-message-was-marked-as-spam

    but it sounds like you've already got it.

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  • Benito

    Thanks Rex! 

    Can you tell me the difference between these two options?

    I understand the second one uses the score we put the field, but I do not know witch score uses the first option.

    • "Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on the Apache SpamAssassin™ internal spam_score setting"
    • "Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on defined Apache SpamAssassin™ score"
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Those options are detailed here:

    https://docs.cpanel.net/whm/service-configuration/exim-configuration-manager-basic-editor/#apache-spamassassin-options

    "Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on the Apache SpamAssassin™ internal spam_score setting

    This setting allows Apache SpamAssassin to scan and reject messages to non-local domains with a higher spam score than Apache SpamAssassin’s internal spam_score setting of 5."

     

    "Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on defined Apache SpamAssassin™ score

    This setting allows you to set the spam_score threshold that Apache SpamAssassin uses to determine when it rejects messages to non-local domains. To enable this setting, enter a number to use as a minimum spam score in the text box.

    • This value must be a number between 0.1 and 99.9.
    • This value only accepts one decimal place.
    Note:
    • This setting does not affect outbound forwarded mail. Forwarders use the Do not forward mail to external recipients based on the defined Apache SpamAssassin™ score setting.
    • Enabling this setting disables the Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on the Apache SpamAssassin™ internal spam_score setting setting.

    This setting defaults to Disabled."

    Does that help to clear things up?

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