spam mail not being tagged as spam

[Bruce Thompson]

See below:

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Baccari, Lou wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  After enabling the 'SpamAssassin Report' I now have the following
> information. Can someone explain how SpamAssassin scores a 20 but
> MailScanner states 'not spam'??
>
> Lou.
>
> mail header info:
> =======================================================================
> =================
> Subject: {^} Teen Celebs - Totally Scandalous! {^}
>            5523-4
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:33:38 +0900
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E5_68C85A6A.D2272A27"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118
> Importance: Normal
> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin
> (score=20,

This line contains the key. The mail was not marked as spam because it
was whitelisted. Now the question becomes why was it whitelisted? I
would recommend looking at either your MailScanner whitelist config, or
SpamAssassin's whitelisting...

        Cheers,
        Bruce.