$sa_tag_level_deflt blocks all mail

[rusty]

This is a hard one to search because it turns up the very common issue of no X-Spam headers are inserted.

I found one post like mine with no replies.

When I set $sa_tag_level_deflt in amavisd to undef or negative number, ALL email is blocked (sent to .spam folder).

Has anyone seen this before? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[falko]

Not sure why this happens. Is there anything related to this in your mail log?

[rusty]

Nothing in maillog, however, based on info I received after my original post, it seems that amavisd is treating the message as clean. Something else is seeing the x-spam header and mistakenly sending it to the .spam folder. Based on that info, I checked the dovecot log and it appears that dovecot lda is the culprit. I'm not sure how to resolve it yet.

[rusty]

In file globalsievec found in mail home folder:

require ["fileinto"];
# Move spam to spam folder
if exists "X-Spam-Flag" {
fileinto "spam";
stop;
}

To resolve this, in amavisd.conf, I'm setting up a unique tag to be added to subject line and I will change X-Spam-Flag (above) to match.

Sorry for the trouble. Not much info on Dovecot LDA cause I guess it's relatively new.

[rusty]

I just wanted to follow-up. The correct syntax for the Dovecot LDA's Sieve script is:

require ["fileinto"];
# Move spam to spam folder
if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" ["YES"] {
fileinto "spam";
stop;
}