Should there be a Bayes score in every email?

[Matt Kettler]

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Greg Deputy wrote:

>This may be a spamassassin question rather than MailScanner, I'm not
>sure.
>
>I'm seeing a few messages get through that are spam, not scoring high
>enough in spamassassin to be flagged.  Many of these don't have any
>Bayes score, is that normal?  Should every message that spamassassin
>looks at have a bayes score, or not?
>

Depends on what version of SA you run. In 2.x it's normal for anything
that has no bayes hits at all, or otherwise ends up at exactly 0.5000,
to not show up.

If this bothers you, and you use 2.x you can add this rule to your config:
body BAYES_NEUTRAL           eval:check_bayes('0.4999','0.5001')
score BAYES_NEUTRAL            0.001


Looking at the rules for 3.0.x should always show a bayes score, but I
don't run it so I can't confirm the behavior. All I can confirm is that
3.0 doesn't have a "hole" in the bayes ranges as 2.x did.

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