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cwoebker
Asked: 2014-07-27 02:26:49 +0800 CST

SpamAssassin doesn't filter forwarded mails

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I am forwarding emails from an external email account to an account on my own server. SpamAssassin works fine if I just receive mail normally. But all mail thats being forwarded from my external mail account to the server doesn't get filtered and ends up in my INBOX. So I end up with a bunch of SPAM.

Oddly, I tested all this and forwarded that same external email account to gmail and even Google didn't filter any of the obvious spam I was getting.

Any ideas what could be the culprit on this one?

Thanks in Advance.

X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 1.917
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.917 tagged_above=-999 required=5
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1 Answers

  1. So turns out after looking at the Email Header. That spamassassin did check the email but simply didn't consider it SPAM.

    Therefore I had to fix my spamassassin configuration and everything is working fine again.

    Take away is: Always check the email headers first.

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