SpamAssassin can't add?

[Gerry Doris]

> On Thursday 11 September 2003 6:16 am, Gerry Doris wrote:
>
>> >  SpamAssassin (score=5.2, required 5, AWL 0.00, NO_REAL_NAME 1.15,
>> > OPPORTUNITY 0.68)
>> >
>> >  Now, unless this is some bizarre form of math I've never seen before,
>> > something just doesn't seem right ;-)
>
>> I have had the same problem for ages.  I have tried running with
>> MailScanner calling SpamAssassin and with procmail calling SpamAssassin.
>> The scores don't add up when MailScanner calls SA.  They do add up when
>> SA
>> is called from procmail or when SA is run separately (ie passing the
>> sample-spam.txt message to SA from the command line).
>
> It would be interesting to push the same message through SA in these two
> ways
> and see what the difference in score assignments is:
>
>  - do the scores 0.00 in one method count as something else in the other
> method?
>
>  - are the individual scores for the tests the same, and only the total
> comes
> out differently?
>
> I wonder if perhaps SA is getting confused about whether it should be
> using
> its local/network/plain/Bayes scores because of the way MS calls it?
>
> Antony.

I ran the message through MS + SA and then processed the message through
procmail + SA.  The scores were different.  I didn't have the 0.0 scores
in the second pass through SA but the totals were the same.


Gerry