SpamCheck Header

[Mike Kercher]

I thought the same thing.  It's a rare occasion that I have anything
relevant to say :)  While OT here, I'd just like to thank you Julian for a
great product and I apprecite the time and effort you invest in its support!

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: SpamCheck Header


> At 07:45 22/05/2002, you wrote:
> >On 21 May 2002 23:46 +0100 Julian Field <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> >
> >>If you look for "X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam" then you know it
> >>isn't spam, even though it might include a SpamAssassin header.
> >
> >The problem with this is that if the e-mail scores *anything* with
> >SpamAssassin, even if it is less than the threshold, it gets the
> >"X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin" header rather than "not spam".
> >See Mike Kercher's contributions for an example.
>
> (Did you mean him? I can only find 2 postings to the list from him,
neither
> of which seem relevant)
>
> And are you definitely testing this against the latest release? I have
just
> checked the following:
>
> Note that the spam message scores 17, the non-spam message scores -2.8,
> i.e. both scores are non-zero.
>
> 1) spam from "Accept Spam From" host, Always Include SA Header=yes
>       ==> "not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin...."
> 2) non-spam from "Accept Spam From" host, Always Include SA Header=yes
>       ==> "not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin...."
> 3) spam from non-exempt host, Always Include SA Header=no
>       ==> "SpamAssassin...."
> 4) non-spam from non-exempt host, Always Include SA Header=no
>       ==> no SpamCheck header
> 5) spam from exempt host, Always Include SA Header=no
>       ==> no SpamCheck header
> 6) non-spam from exempt host, Always Include SA Header=no
>       ==> no SpamCheck header
> 7) spam from non-exempt host, Always Include SA Header=yes
>       ==> "SpamAssassin...."
> 8) non-spam from non-exempt host, Always Include SA Header=yes
>       ==> "not spam, SpamAssassin...."
>
> All of which are exactly as I would have expected. Given non-spam messages
> it either doesn't put in a SpamCheck header at all, or puts in one
starting
> with "not spam" as I intended.
>
> So what cases have I missed? It seems to be working as intended...
> --
> 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
>
>