SA problem since MS upgrade

Brandon Friedman brandonf at BFCONSULT.CO.ZA
Thu Aug 29 08:03:33 IST 2002


Hi Julian

I haven't done very much messing around on the box as it is our main
production server. I have been testing on a test server but I can't seem
to replicate the problem

BTW it a RH7.3 box with sendmail

I also edited the whitelist and added the From and To statements. What I
can gather is that this was more an issue with whitelist members be
tagged as spammers?

The rest seem to be genuine spam alerts.

Julian Field wrote:

> First off, has anyone else seen this problem?
> I haven't heard any reports of this from anyone else, so it may be a Perl
> oddity in your setup.
>
> What version of Perl are you using? And on what operating system?
>
> Are you getting the spam report in the log for these messages as well as
> the subject-line tag? (you might need to turn on spam logging first)
>
> Please try changing lines 442-443 of sendmail.pl from
>     $IsSpam->{$mID} = 1      if $ThisIsSpam;
>     $IsSpam->{$mID} = 'high' if $ThisIsHigh;
> to
>     $IsSpam->{"$mID"} = 1      if $ThisIsSpam;
>     $IsSpam->{"$mID"} = 'high' if $ThisIsHigh;
>
> If you aren't getting the log entries as well, then for some reason
> $ThisIsHigh is being set without $ThisIsSpam being set (which shouldn't be
> possible).
>
> Let's see what happens now (and see what other responses we get from anyone
> else), then I'll dig further.
>
> I've just done a diff between 3.22-10 and 3.22-12. All the spam detection
> code is in sendmail.pl and here's the diff between the 2 versions of it:
>
>> 4c4
>> < #   $Id: sendmail.pl,v 1.99.2.22 2002/07/17 15:27:02 jkf Exp $
>> ---
>> > #   $Id: sendmail.pl,v 1.99.2.28 2002/07/30 15:51:46 jkf Exp $
>
> In other words, none of that code has changed, so the change in behaviour
> has got to be something a lot more subtle...
>
> Keep me posted.
> Jules
> At 20:30 27/08/2002, you wrote:
>
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I upgrade my mailscanner to mailscanner-3.22-12 from mailscanner-3.22-10.
>>
>> The problem is that some e-mail message....(HTML) are being tagged as
>> spam in the subject line but I looked at the message source and it
>> indicates that it isn't spam:
>>
>> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=4.7,
>>        required 8, SUBJ_HAS_Q_MARK, DEAR_SOMEBODY, CLICK_BELOW,
>>        DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, EMAIL_MARKETING, SUPERLONG_LINE,
>> HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,
>>        MAILTO_LINK, FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE, AWL)
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> As a matter of fact I see that this is actually whitelisted!
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>> Brandon Friedman
>> Cell:083 408 7840
>> E-mail: brandonf at bfconsult.co.za
>> www.bfconsult.co.za
>
>
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
>


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Regards
Brandon Friedman
Cell:083 408 7840
E-mail: brandonf at bfconsult.co.za
www.bfconsult.co.za



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