Inconsistent spamassassin scores in msg headers

[Ugo Bellavance]

Michael Freeman wrote:

> Our Spam threshold is set to 5 before its considered spam and our high
> score is set at 7. Anothing above 7 is considered high scoring and deleted.
>
> The issue is that high scoring spam is getting though to our clients and
> the score reported is absolutely incorrect. This msg was sitting in our
> mailqueue and is an example.
>
> 181  X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.1 required=5.0 tests=BE_URI_RBL,HTML_20_30,
> HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,MIME_HTML_ONLY,SARE_MILLIONSOF,
> SPAMCOP_URI_RBL autolearn=no version=2.63
> 024  X-Spam-Level: *********
>
> Hits = 9.1 Required = 5.0
>
> If high scoring spam is set at 7 to delete how did this msg get though?
> Note what mailscanner is saying on the next line.
>
> 040  X-EfastServers-MailScanner-SpamScore: 3

So you're running SpamAssassin in parallel with MailScanner?

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