Spam scores in headers

[Richard Frovarp]

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The total for the rules listed is 7.54 which is not that far off of the 
score of 7.557. The scores listed for the rules are not the exact scores 
that SA uses. This leads to rounding errors. See: 
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RoundingIssues

Richard Edge wrote:

> I am running MailScanner 4.47.4, SA 3.01 with Rules Du Jour and was 
> wondering how to configure things to show all of the tests failed. 
> Looking at the headers and totaling up the scores it is obvious that 
> some other tests are also being triggered, but not recorded in the 
> "X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:" header lines.
>
> For example:
>
> X-TWU-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=7.557, required 
> 5,BAYES_50 0.00, HTML_90_100 0.11, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04 
> 3.60,HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 1.08,HTML_SHORT_LENGTH 
> 1.57, MIME_BASE64_NO_NAME 0.22,MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.00, NO_REAL_NAME 0.96)
>
> X-TWU-MailScanner-SpamScore: sssssss
>
> I am using the following RDJ:
>
> TRUSTED_RULESETS="ANTIDRUG SARE_ADULT SARE_OEM BOGUSVIRUS SARE_FRAUD 
> SARE_OBFU0 SARE_EVILNUMBERS0 SARE_EVILNUMBERS1 SARE_EVILNUMBERS2 
> SARE_SPOOF"
>
> Also, is there a way to include the SpamAssassin version number in the 
> "X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:" header. I have seen it in some, but they 
> appear to be using spamassassin as either spamc or spamd. Is this the 
> reason or have I missed something in the docs and/or MailScannner.conf 
> options?
>
> We are using MailScanner on our two email gateways forwarding all 
> email to our Exchange Servers and also using IMF on the Exchange front 
> end server. I want to rely more on MailScanner for this as IMF 2.0 is 
> generating too many false positives and MailScanner/SpamAssassin is 
> not catching enough spam for me to rely on it totally. We are trying 
> to move away from a dependency on MS products and may even move our 
> main email servers to a Linux solution (IT Director vision) but in 
> order to do so, I need to be able to have MailScanner/SpamAssassin 
> doing all of the anti-spam as well as the anti-virus. While I am 
> continually tweaking MailScanner to get the most out of it, it appears 
> there is still a ways to go. I also need to be able to allow 
> quarantining in a way that allows for one location to maintain 
> quarantined spam. To this end I will be installing MailWatch on a 
> separate server and was wanting to know if anyone can point me to 
> documentation for setting this up to have two gateway smtp servers 
> running MailScanner/SpamAssassin and quarantine manage from a single 
> separate server if this is indeed the best scenario. I will also ask 
> about this in the MailWatch list.
>
> Any tips or ideas from the user community would be very helpful.
>
> *Richard Edge*
> /Senior Systems Administrator |/ Technology Services
> Trinity Western University | t: 604.513.2089
> f: 604.513.2038 | e: ___edge at twu.ca___ <mailto:edge at twu.ca>___ | 
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