Mailscanner digest detected as spam

[Matt Kettler]

What version of SpamAssassin are you running? 2.20? if so, upgrade to the
current release which is 2.31.. .the scores for both rules went down a lot.

The values of SpamAssassin scores are not valid for extended periods of
time, as characteristics of common spam and non-spam changes over time. SA
is not intended to be run without upgrading...

That said, I run 2.20, but I've hand hacked a few scores to be more in line
with 2.31... Which is probably worse but it's working well enough till I
get a chance to do a real upgrade of MailScanner and SA.


sa 2.31:
50_scores.cf:score CTYPE_JUST_HTML                1.665
50_scores.cf:score MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2          1.603

doesn't add to 5.0

sa 2.20:

50_scores.cf.orig:score CTYPE_JUST_HTML                3.154
50_scores.cf.orig:score MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2          2.405

that's 5.6

At 05:18 PM 8/13/2002 +0100, Bruno Melloni wrote:
>I noticed that SpamAssassin (with default settings) tags the MailScanner
>list digest as spam.
>
>Whitelisting jiscmail.ac.uk will solve the problem, but I thought I'd
>mention it since it might be possible to do something to the list or
>MailScanner defaults to prevent it.
>
>SA score is 5.6 and the signatures are:
>
>   MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2
>   CTYPE_JUST_HTML
>
>Bruno