Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting

[Julian Field]

At 17:27 27/07/2002, you wrote:
>I see the confusion but this is a report file.  In sender.pl, I have
>some extra code

So now I'm supporting your code, not mine? That's novel...

>  that if $SaResult is true, I then get the score and if
>its < 30 then I get the whole rewite ($spamness->rewrite_mail ()) and
>send that to a file called spr$mID.  I do this so I can watch for false
>positives and report to razor.
>
>The output that you are seeing is from that code which only runs if
>  $SAResult = ($spamness->is_spam())?1:0; is true

And if you study my code, you'll discover that I don't use is_spam().
There's a reason: it's very unreliable.

>It shouldn't be true if the message has a trigger that's whitelisted
>though correct?  Or are you running everything thru SA and then checking
>the whitelist?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 10:28 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting
>
>
>At 14:59 27/07/2002, you wrote:
> >Where do you see that?  I'm running SA from Mailscanner.
>
>These are all created by SA running from something other than
>MailScanner. If it's not you running it this way, then someone in the
>path from the sender to you must be running it this way.
>
> > >Subject: *****SPAM***** CBSMW After The Bell Report: Senate confirms
> >SEC
> > >nominees
> > >X-DCC-servers-Metrics: eeyore 1049; Body=1 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2
> > >X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.2 required=5.0
> > >
> >tests=FWD_MSG,INVALID_DATE,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND,COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,
> > >               OPT_IN,CLICK_BELOW,ONLY_COST,LINES_OF_YELLING,
> > >               HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,CLICK_HERE_LINK,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,
> > >               WEIRD_PORT,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,
> > >               MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,AWL
> > >         version=2.40
> > >X-Spam-Flag: YES
> > >X-Spam-Level: *********
> > >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.40 (devel $Id:
> > >SpamAssassin.pm,v 1.102 2002/07/18 15:18:39 jmason Exp $)
> > >X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/html
> > >X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
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>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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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