Re: [AMaViS-user] how to retrieve a false positive spam

At 05:18 PM 1/29/2007, Troy Piggins wrote:
>[ Top-posting corrected ]
>* Paul Barbeau is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> >
> >> I have a message that was falsely detected as spam[1]. I have
> >> found the gzipped file in /var/virusmails/spam-xxxx.gz.
> >>
> >> Is there a simple way to retrieve it or pass it on to the
> >> intended recipient, or do I just have to manually process it?
> >>
> >> I gunzipped it and tried to read it with mutt, but it does not
> >> appear to be a legitimate email format. How do I make it so?
> >>
> >> [1] It was given a score of 8, but was legitimate mail! Not the
> >> fault of amavis or spamassassin - the mail was extremely poorly
> >> formed and included many spam-like words.
> >
> > What I do to release messages is the following (well something like it).
> >
> > zcat /var/virusmails/spam-xxxx.gz | sendmail troy@piggo.com
>
>Thanks. I just tried that, but that message got detected as spam
>again. I have pretty much a default amavis setup, so guess I'll
>need to add someone to the whitelist :) Now more reading to see
>how to do that.

It was detected as spam again because you have configured locally
submitted mail to be scanned. (that's a common enough configuration,
not necessarily an error).

Rather than using sendmail, use a minimal smtp client. I like mini_sendmail.

zcat /path/to/file | mini_sendmail -p 10025 recipient@example.com

Some notes:
- If the mail is multi-recipient, all the recipients will be listed
in X-Envelope-To: headers in the quarantine file. You might want to
clean those up before releasing the mail to protect BCC: privacy.
- The above assumes postfix is listening on port 10025, which is the
common setup.
- It's probably easier to use amavisd-release, which does the cleanup for you.

--
Noel Jones


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