Spam not being flagged

[Julian Field]

At 16:23 21/05/2002, you wrote:
>I just upgraded to 3.15-3 and noticed something odd while testing.
>
>---begin---
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=7, required 5,
>        SUBJ_HAS_Q_MARK, EXCUSE_3, EXCUSE_7, OPT_IN, CLICK_BELOW,
>        SUBJ_REMOVE)
>---end---

That's because you are in the "Accept Spam From" section or in the
spam.whitelist.conf file. And you have "Always Include SpamAssassin Header"
switched on. So by your configuration, you have requested that you always
get the report, but actually ignore its contents.

>In this particular instance, I forwarded myself some spam (the original
>generated a much higher score) and thought it rather odd that a score in
>excess of the required score would get a 'not spam' designation.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>--
>Mike Wallis
>mw at unixsecurity.org

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