SpamAssassin 2.50 Problems

[Gerry Doris]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> At 03:57 25/02/2003, you wrote:
> >BTW, I did notice something else.  I've been running SA 2.50 for several
> >days calling it through procmail while the fix was being worked on.  After
> >I patched 2.50 and started using MailScanner to call it I had SpamAssassin
> >running twice on every message...once with MailScanner and then again with
> >procmail.
> >
> >The SpamAssassin scores are different.  Have you any idea why this might
> >be?  With all the messing around I've been doing with SpamAssassin I'm not
> >surprised something is now operating strangely!
>
> What was the difference between the 2 lists of tests that "hit"?
> What version of MS are you running?
> --
> Julian Field

Ok, I've included portions of a header of a message picked at ramdom from
a Redhat list.  Notice that the tests are exactly the same but the scores
are totally different.  How can this be?  BTW, I'm running MS 4.12-2.

<snip...lots of redhat header removed>
List-Archive: <https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/valhalla-list/>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:30:00 -0600 (CST)
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-MailScanner-Information: Contact gerry at dorfam.ca
X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-18.3, required 7,
        AWL, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,
        QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1, RCVD_IN_BONDEDSENDER,
        REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE, USER_AGENT_PINE, X_LOOP)
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-34.2 required=7.0
        tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,
              QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,RCVD_IN_BONDEDSENDER,
              REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE,USER_AGENT_PINE,
              X_LOOP
        autolearn=ham   version=2.50
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp)
X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: tiger.dorfam.ca 101; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=2

--
Gerry

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