Spamassissin compleatly ballsed - what to do?

[DNSAdmin]

At 12:53 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:

>My spamassissin is compleatly stuffed.
>
>I dont really know when or how it happend, possibly someone did a
>package upgrade without informing me - these things happens.
>
>Now however I get some very strange behaviour in Mailscanner.
>
>Either this
>
>X-Slipgate-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-Slipgate-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=9.881,
>
>Why on earth is it marked "Found to be clean" with a SA score that is way
>over the mark limit?
>
>My High Scoring spam is set to 10.0 and Spam is set to 5.0, this should be
>marked as spam surely?
>
>Or in the worst case I get this.
>
>X-Slipgate-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-Slipgate-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out)
>
>This system used to work great and I loved it till a few weeks ago! No
>config changes have been made to MailScanner, what could be causing this?

Colin,

Is it possible you are overlooking something or expecting to find a problem
that isn't there? It appears you received an email that was "clean" of
virus content and was tagged as spam.

As for the timeout condition at the end of your message, you could be
experiencing heavy traffic during that period and be timing out due to RBL
spam checks?

If you're certain of a problem, you sure have not demonstrated it.

Cheers,
Glenn

--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
Configuration by Glenn Parsons dnsadmin-at-1bigthink.com


------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

    [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ]


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 11/1/2004

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).