small spam score, but defined as spam

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 15 07:02:12 GMT 2005


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Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Jason wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I recieve emails marked to be spam without enough spam
>> score. The
>> follow header is from an email (actually a spam). MailScanner correctly
>> defines it as spam, but the score is just -0.125. So does MailScanner
>> does
>> not only rely on spam score? What else then?
>>
>> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, spamhaus-XBL, SpamAssassin (score=-0.125,
>> required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, BAYES_50 0.00, HTML_30_40 0.02,
>> HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, INVALID_DATE 0.24, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.18,
>> MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 0.04, MSGID_OUTLOOK_INVALID 2.70)
>
>
> Julian,
>
> this question pops up every week. Could you please consider having RBL
> checks within MS disabled as a default?

I think a MAQ entry would be more appropriate.

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