seems like a bug in the spam cache thing

Dave Strydom strydom.dave at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 12:38:23 GMT 2006


Gentoo Linux and Version 4.50.15-1 with spamassassin 3.1.0

I have two other scanning servers using an older version with
spamassassin 3.0 and they are fine. This has only started happening
since this release of MailScanner, and it seems to only happen with
emails that get a hit in the spamassassin cache.

Dave


On 2/28/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> What OS and release are you using?
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> On 28 Feb 2006, at 11:30, Dave Strydom wrote:
>
> > its not the difference in score, it's the fact that it's scoring 19
> > from the spamassassin cache but is not being treated as spam, it's
> > being treated as clean mail.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On 2/28/06, Ramprasad <ram at netcore.co.in> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:58 +0200, Dave Strydom wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> please refer to the attached picture, if not, let me know and
> >>> i'll put
> >>> it on the web.
> >>>
> >>> Basically an email gets picked up as spam with a spam score of like
> >>> 19, the next message the comes in, has this message:
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Look at the maillog for both the mails. See what rules hit the second
> >> mail and missed the first.
> >>
> >> Most likely these are dns checks. all the RCVD_IN_* checks
> >>
> >> Even on my server I get same mails with different scores and they are
> >> because of inconsistent scores by the dns checks, though we run a
> >> caching nameserver. I think these dns servers are not always
> >> available
> >> so that makes the difference.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Ram
> >>
> >>
> >>
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