emailing myself -› SPAM

[jerryboi]

On a newly installed system when I send a mail to myself it goes straight to spam. I have checked that my server/ip is not blacklisted anywhere. Tailed the mailbox.log and zimbra.log... Where else should I look?

[jerryboi]

Adding server IP to spamassassin whitelist fixed it, here is how it is done:

[root@zimbra /]# su zimbra
[zimbra@zimbra /]$ cd /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin
[zimbra@zimbra spamassassin]$ nano local.cf 
[Add line trusted_networks XX.XX.XX.XX , Ctrl+O: Save] 
[zimbra@zimbra spamassassin]$ zmmtactl restart && zmamavisdctl restart

Easy-peasy. I would still like to know WHY my mail went to spam, as it is quite possible that other servers might flag my messages as spam, which is undesirable. Someone please help: where do I find the spamfilter logs?

[Krishopper]

Check the raw message headers of the email you receieve from yourself. It should show every spamassassin rule and score that triggered the spam flagging.

[jerryboi]

Thank you. The mail had this in the header:

X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Score: 6.83
X-Spam-Level: ******
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.83 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6
	tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, HELO_NO_DOMAIN=0.001, HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.981,
	HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16=1.092, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_PBL=3.335,
	RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=0.001, RDNS_NONE=0.793,
	SHORT_HELO_AND_INLINE_IMAGE=1.39, TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX=1.136]
	autolearn=no

RCVD_IN_PBL does the most damage, so I went to spamhaus and found that my IP is not listed. What can I do now?

EDIT : Mz server IP is not listed, but the "X-Originating-IP" is. i don't see why sa checks that, should be a misconfig, surely?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by jerryboi

RCVD_IN_PBL does the most damage, so I went to spamhaus and found that my IP is not listed.

It will be listed somewhere otherwise it wouldn't have failed the test. Which IP did you check?

Originally Posted by jerryboi

What can I do now?

Do you have the x-originating-ip setting enabled in the Admin UI? If you do then disable it.

[Krishopper]

Are you on a home network connection, like cable or DSL, or is this server located on a business grade network connection or datacenter?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by jerryboi

EDIT : Mz server IP is not listed, but the "X-Originating-IP" is. i don't see why sa checks that, should be a misconfig, surely?

No, it's not.

[jerryboi]

Krishopper, Phoenix, 10Q for your help, problem is solved by unticking "Add X-Originating IP to messages" on the admin interface under Configuration > Global Settings > MTA > Messages.

@Krishopper The server is at a datacenter, but I logged on with dynamic IP from my isp's residential ip pool and this ip was in fact listed. (I put this in addendum to my previous post when I found out but you guys were lightning fast.)

Thanks again, this is SOLVED.