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I have hMailServer and Smapassasin installed in a Windows 2012 R2 Server.

I am trying to white list some local addresses so they don't get email blocked.

I modified local.cf file under C:\Program Files\JAM Software\SpamAssassin for Windows\etc\spamassassin to add the addresses.
So I have something like this:

report_safe 0
all_spam_to A1@localdomain.com
all_spam_to A2@localdomain.com
all_spam_to A3@localdomain.com

After modifying the local.cf file as showed, I stopped and restarted the service using
net stop spamassasin and net start smapassasin

Nevertheless, the addresses are still getting spam email blocked.

Can you help me?

Thanks

Normally white list FROM addresses.

To whitelist in spamassassin you use whitelist_from https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualWhitelist

Or whitelist_to if you need to.

Or you can white list in hmailserver to stop mail being passed to spamassassin in the first place. https://www.hmailserver.com/documentati ... itelisting

However be aware that AUTHENTICATED senders will not have their emails checked and therefore do not need whitelisting.

Yep all_spam_to is something completely different

all_spam_to I use for an account that I don't want any incoming mail spam scored by SpamAssassin.
Eg I have an account that I use for competitions, promo@example.com

I still want the messages that come to this account, and I want all of the newsletters and coupon vouchers that are sent there, I just don't want to read them.

I set
all_spam_to promo@example.com.au in my .cf file

If I'm looking for a pizza voucher, I open that account and search for 'pizza'

Thank you jimimaseye and mattg,

Excuse me if I don't understand you completely. English is not my native tongue.

What I want is all email sent to a specific account, let's say me@me.com, to reach this specific account. I don't want spamassasin to score any email sent to this specific email address.

I understand that to achieve that goal, I have to add, in spamassasin local.cf file the line

all_spam_to me@me.com

So I did that and then stopped - restarted spamassasin.

I have a rule in hMailServer that applies to all email with a spamassasin score equal or greater to 5. My rule forwards those emails to a spamctach account.

When I check that account, I see that spam email addressed to me@me.com is still being forwarded to my spamctach account.

To tell the truth, I haven't checked if me@me.com received the emails (my rule, besides forwarding the spam email, deletes the original, so the intended recipient does not get it).

But my understanding is that, if I use this "all_spam_to me@me.com", me@me.com should not have any email sent to it evaluated by spamassasin. Am I right?

sergiortc wrote:But my understanding is that, if I use this "all_spam_to me@me.com", me@me.com should not have any email sent to it evaluated by spamassasin. Am I right?

Correct

However the message may have been scored higher than 5 by other hMailserver AntiSPAM checks (DKIM, DNSBL, HOST test, SPF test, SURBL etc) - depending on your settings

The way that I get around that, is to set SpamAssassin's mark score at negative 500 by adding this to the .cf
required_score -500.0

And then in hMailserver I set hMailserver to use the SpamAssassin score.

If hmailserver scores a message as 12, but SpamAssassin scores at -100 (100 is deducted from SpamAssassin scores for all_mail_to addresses),
Then the final spam score is -88


Another word of advice, don't use the default local.cf, create a new .cf file
I've seen (not on the JAM version though) the local.cf get overwritten during version update of SpamAssassin

mattg wrote: Another word of advice, don't use the default local.cf, create a new .cf file
I've seen (not on the JAM version though) the local.cf get overwritten during version update of SpamAssassin

Its ok with the Jam version. I used (and moddied) the default local.cf and have upgraded since and it remained untouched. So safe to use.

(But cant vouch for any Linux versions, as matt implies).

jimimaseye and mattg,

I must be doing something wrong. I believe all emails sent to my all_spam_to email addresses, are still being scored by SpamAssasin.
Maybe you remember I am writing an application to process spam email and store some data from them in a SQL Server database.
If I query my database, I can see the emails sent to one of the email addresses I added as all_spam_to in my local.cf is still being processed by Spamassasin. For example, here you have the last 10 spam emails sent to a given address, let's call it me@me.com: As you can see al 10 emails have a Spamassasin score and the third one has an hmailserver score of 0.
And I have a line in my local.cf that says all_spam_to me@me.com
?

https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AllSpamToFiltering

Check your understanding is correct and that your conditions match what the feature requires to work.

In particular:

However, the mechanism only works if the given email address appears in the TO: or CC: lines of the email itself. It does not examine the delivery envelope, since the MTA generally does not expose this data in the message.

More info: https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3. ... _Conf.html

Thank you jimimaseye and mattg,

I found the problem (at least I think so).

I was not really restarting spamassasin, since this action needs elevated permissions.

I have a .bat program to update SpamAssasin rules and I was running it as a user. The program stops-updates-starts Spamassasin.

I saw the error message about not stopping Spamassasin service and ran it as administrator.

Ever since I did that (yesterday noon), the all_spam_to directives are being followed.

Thank you again and have a nice day.