Mailing List Archive: Custom Rule sets--How do I test them??

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Mail::Spamassassin 2.63 with amavisd-new.
>
> I've dropped the bigevil ruleset in /etc/mail/spamassassin and restarted
> amavisd-new.
>
> So.....how do I test to see if the rules are actually being used?
>
> I looked in the bigevil.cf and constructed a mail that should match 3 of
> the rules for a score of 9 which should be blocked....BUT...it gets
> through...grrrrrrrr.
>
> Also, I have tried and tried (oh how I've tried!) to get SA to tag ALL
> mails with the their spam score (both spam and ham) but it seems to be
> an impossible task...
>
> Any Help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Dengler
> Programmer/Analyst
> Bowes Publishers Limited
> (519) 471-8320 x248
> Mon-Fri 10:00AM-6:00PM
>

Hi Mike,
Are you running amavisd-new in a chroot jail? If so make sure that you
also copy the rules to your chroot location, i.e.
/var/amavisd/etc/mail/spamassassin then restart amavisd-new.

Also the same issue could be the cause of amavisd-new not adding headers
to all emails, if you changed the /etc/amavisd.conf file, you may need to
copy the changed amavisd.conf file to the chroot location as well.

HTH,
matt