Hi Dave,

 

The spam filtering work with SMTP check first (if enabled) then the email goes to the spool and right before deliver any content deliver check are ran such as spam assassin, then domain content filter and then users content filters.  I would recommend checking the deliver logs to see what is occurring.  

Thanks for the reply Brian. This is all I see in the delivery log. Do you what might be causing this?

 

[2014.07.28] 18:48:06 [85738] Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server : No Spam Assassin servers available
[2014.07.28] 18:48:06 [85738] Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server : No Spam Assassin servers available
[2014.07.28] 18:48:06 [85738] Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server : No Spam Assassin servers available
[2014.07.28] 18:48:06 [85738] Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server : No Spam Assassin servers

I checked the Delivery Log and have had this message since March 28th 2014 and just about nothing else. So I checked the AntiSpam Administration and unchecked the 2 SpamAssassin checks. Maybe that'll stop that issue and allow the proper spam filtering to happen. I will check the results in the morning and let you know what I find.

 

Thanks

Dave

OK, well no more Delivery Log messages about SpamAssassin. YEAH! I still had some spam messages without Prefix subject but then checked around and found some content filters local to the actual e-mail address so I deleted those. Will check again later. Sorry for all the messages but maybe this will help someone else who has misconfigured like I have.

 

Thanks

Dave

Hi Dave,

 

Regarding SpamAssassin message in the deliver logs this would be due to enabling the external Spam Assassin check.  When you enable this it means that SmarterMail is looking for an external server that is running Spam Assassin.  If you enable the SpamAssassin based pattern matching you should not get the message in the deliver logs.  Since this is an internal SpamAssassin server.