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Hello,  I am evaluating SmarterMail on my network and have installed SmarterMail on my local PC.  I have enabled SpamAssassin and Clam and would like to test it out.  I have SmarterMail setup to do domain forwarding.  I can get mail to forward ok and the SMTP block list seems to work. 

I am currently testing by connecting to port 25 from another PC in my subnet and and issuing SMTP commands to send mail.   I would like to test SpamAssassin in this way.  The following does not seem to work. Any ideas?  Thanks.

 telnet 192.168.x.x 25 

helo test.com

mail from:scotth@test.com

rcpt to:scotth@mydomain.com

data

Subject:bunch of spam stuff here

more spam stuff here...

.

I wonder if your local subnet would be a "trusted sender" so that it would never show up in SPAM.

Just a thought.

I just found a thread here that indicates that Spam filtering can't be performed on e-mail forwared to another domain.  Is this still the case?  If so how would one go about setting up SmarterMail as a gateway for inbound mail and have it properly filter spam using Spam Assassin?

http://www.smartertools.com/forums/p/15070/36128.aspx#36128

Nope, I get the same results when I initiate the e-mail from a different subnet.  In fact I am able to trip my local junk mail filter in Outlook so SmarterMail/SpamAssassin should have caught it or at least tagged it.

 Thanks for the thought though. 

You can use GTUBE to test SpamAssassin and EICAR to test Clam. Those are test strings that will make the products treat the message as a spam message/virus.