Hi Guys,

I have an email server configured with qmail/vpopmail/simscan. Since recently one of the users started getting spams.

I have the spam_hits in /var/qmail/simcontrol to five:

:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=5,attach=.mp3:.src:.bat:.pif

But the user is still getting a lot of spam.

Is there a way to check the spam hit level of a received message? How can I check whether all the emails are passed through the simscan?

I have tried the following from the command line:

QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/simscan SIMSCAN_DEBUG=2 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject myself@mydomain.com < testmsg.txt

and the testmessage.txt contains just "This is just a test". This actually fails with

qmail-inject: fatal: Your email is considered spam (6.20 spam-hits)

which I think is correct (as my spam_hits is 5). But, as I said already, I want to ensure that this is working in the live implementation.

Please let me know if you need more information in this regard.

Thanks

Well guys,

I learnt it myself.

For some strange reasons my /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp was having

as default ie it was not using the simscan for filtering emails. I now have changed it to

and for testing this, I sent an email from one of my online email accounts with

in the email body as specified in http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/.

Now in my /var/log/qmail/smtp/curr I could see a score for every incoming email and the email header contains the spam (check) information.

Those emails with a hit level on or above 5 (as specified in simcontrol) are now automatically rejected.

Hope this helps somebody.

I will mark it as solved tomorrow. In the mean time, if anybody finds any faults in the above or has any suggestions to improve this further, please drop a comment for this thread.

Sites/Pages that helped figuring this out:
http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Tcp.smtp
http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Simscan

Thanks