SpamAssassin score is always zero

[Adri Koppes]

> I just set up MailScanner 4.43.8 on Redhat 9 (Intel). SpamAssassin
> 2.6.4 was already installed.  For the most part things are working as 
> expected.  SpamAssassin, however, doesn't catch anything when run 
> through MailScanner.
> 
> Here's a typical maillog entry:
> 
> Jul 19 16:52:58 **** MailScanner[10122]: Message XYZ from **** (****) 
> to **** is spam, SBL+XBL, spamhaus.org, spamcop.net, SpamAssassin 
> (score=0,required6, autolearn=)
> 
> The SA score is zero on every entry in the log.
> 
> However, if I feed the quarantined copy of that message directly to
> SpamAssassin:
>      spamassassin -D < 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20050719/spam/XYZ
> SA gives it a score of 17.653, and generally does what it's supposed
to.
> 
> Any thoughts on why SA isn't working when called by MailScanner?
> 

Looking at the maillog entry it looks like MailScanner is also doing RBL
checking (SBL+XBL, spamhaus.org, spamcop.net). Since the message is
already flagged as spam from the RBL checking, doesn't Mailscanner then
skip the SpamAssassin checks?

Adri.

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