Spamassasin scanning sporadically, please help. {Scanned by H JMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

And it's hitting the same mailscanner server each time, correct? :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan C. Quesada [mailto:baldguy33165 at YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:13 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Spamassasin scanning sporadically, please help.
> {Scanned by
> HJMS}
>
>
> I'm actually resending the same exact email. It is
> sometimes caught, and sometimes not. just a simple
> subject and body.
>
> I'm using version 4.22-4 the message is roughly 1k in
> size.
>
> The emails are all being scanned, however, sometimes
> the fWORD rule will get caught and sometimes not.
> --- Antony Stone <Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK> wrote:
> > On Friday 12 September 2003 5:36 pm, Juan C. Quesada
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have customized rules like this one on my
> > > spam.assassin.prefs file:
> > >
> > > header    FOUL_WORD  Subject =~ /\bfoulword\b/i
> > > body      FOUL_WORD  /\bfoulword\b/i
> > > score     FOUL_WORD  100.0
> > >
> > > header    THE_FWORD  Subject =~ /fword/i
> > > body      THE_FWORD  /fword/i
> > > score     THE_FWORD  100.0
> > >
> > > I have done email tests from the outside and spam
> > > assasin will catch them most of the time, but
> > > sometimes they leak through and are marked as "not
> > > spam, spamassasin".
> > >
> > > In other words, the email is scanned for spam and
> > > scored, but it missed the rules above.
> >
> > Do you mean that exactly the same email is sometimes
> > caught, and sometimes
> > not, or do you mean that some emails are caught and
> > others aren't?
> >
> > If the latter, what is the difference between the
> > ones which are caught and
> > the ones which are not?
> >
> > How large are the emails you are trying to scan?
> > What version of
> > MailScanner are you using?
> >
> > Antony.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Having been asked to provide a reference for this
> > man,
> > I can confidently state that you will be very lucky
> > indeed
> > if you can get him to work for you.
>
>
>
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