Spamassassin works but not with MS

[Julian Field]

At 06:47 18/10/2002, you wrote:
>I'm running MS 3.24-1 with SA 2.42 on Trustix 1.5/Perl 5.6.1. It appears
>that SA correctly identifies spam but through some interaction with MS,
>the message is not tagged as spam. Here's an example header:
>
>X-Spam-Flag: YES
>X-Spam-Level: Spam-Level SSSSSSSSSSS
>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.42 (1.115.2.14-2002-10-04-exp)
>X-Spam-Report: 11.40 hits, 5 required;
>      * -1.2 -- User-Agent header indicates a non-spam MUA (Mutt)
>      * -0.5 -- Found a User-Agent header
>      * 3.4 -- BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list
>      * 1.0 -- BODY: Multi Level Marketing mentioned
>      * 0.8 -- BODY: List removal information
>      * 0.7 -- BODY: List removal information
>      * 0.6 -- BODY: No Inventory
>      * 0.5 -- BODY: Do it Today
>      * 0.4 -- BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list
>      * 0.4 -- BODY: Asks you to click below (in caps)
>      * 0.4 -- BODY: List removal information
>      * 0.3 -- BODY: Asks you to click below
>      * 1.3 -- BODY: Spam phrases score is 13 to 21 (high)
>      [score: 13]
>      * 0.3 -- BODY: FONT Size +2 and up or 3 and up
>      * 0.3 -- BODY: HTML font color has unusual name
>      * 0.3 -- BODY: HTML font color is red
>      * 0.2 -- BODY: HTML font color is blue
>      * 0.6 -- BODY: Tells you to click on a URL (in caps)
>      * 0.3 -- BODY: Tells you to click on a URL
>      * 0.2 -- BODY: Includes a URL link to send an email
>      * 0.7 -- URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email address
>      * 0.4 -- Subject has many exclamations
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.5, required 5,
>      AWL)

Your MailScanner is set to do auto-whitelisting (hence the AWL entry). Read
the mailscanner.conf file and you will find how to turn that off if you
don't want it.
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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
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