Upgrade to 3.0 has increased my spam 100 fold

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Jan 9 19:58:22 GMT 2005


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Clear out all your old spamassassin rules directories.
Also, what is generating the X-Spam-Status header? This sure ain't
MailScanner.

Jim Van Etten wrote:

>For some reason when I upgraded my spamassassin to 3.0.1 from 2.6 most of
>the spam is getting through. I never had this problem before. I have cleared
>my bayes directory so it could start fresh.
>
>The header for X-Spam-Status looks like this for example:
>
>No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=FIN_FREE,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,
>FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_04,HTML_MESSAGE,
>HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY,URI_OFFERS autolearn=no version=3.0.1
>
>How in the world can the score be only 1.6 while detecting all the listed
>items. This should score much higher. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>

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