spam detected but not tagged

Dave Strydom strydom.dave at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 11:20:25 GMT 2006


As a work around for the moment, i've just disabled using the
Spamassassin.cache.db

if there is anything you would like me to test on my side, please let me know.

Dave

On 3/2/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 2 Mar 2006, at 10:14, Dave Strydom wrote:
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> > I have an idea (it may be stupid though)
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong but, If a message gets a hit from the
> > spamassassin.cache.db then it is definately spam?
>
> No, it caches negative results (briefly) too.
>
> > If the above is right, can you do not put a additional check in the
> > code, that check if the message got a spam hit from the
> > spamassassin.cache.db, and if it did mark it as spam (regard of the
> > output it gets from the hit)
> >
> > Because as you see from this:
> >
> > Feb 28 09:05:42 Cerberus MailScanner[22928]: SpamAssassin cache hit
> > for message 1FDyvT-0006SE-Nn
> > Feb 28 09:05:42 Cerberus MailScanner[22928]: Message 1FDyvT-0006SE-Nn
> > from 220.104.253.235 (cleopatr at akeva.com) to xxxxxxxxxx.com is not
> > spam,
> >
> > It got a hit from the database, (this is where it gets the score of 19
> > or whatever) but then mailscanner says it's not spam. Could you not
> > code it so it does this: "
> >
> > if spamassassin cache hit then
> > is definately spam.
> >
> > or am I way off the ball here?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ==================
> > On 3/2/06, Dave Strydom <strydom.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> yeah this is related to the same problem as mine (just checked the
> >> headers of those messages)
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> On 3/2/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >>> I think this is another Perl bug, I've seen this exact behaviour
> >>> several times before. The problem is that I cannot reproduce it and
> >>> so I'm not sure where to put the workaround.
> >>>
> >>> On 2 Mar 2006, at 09:06, Erik van der Leun wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> X-MailScanner-Spamcheck: geen spam, X-MailScanner-SpamScore: 17
> >>>>
> >>>> This is really all it writes about spam in headers...
> >>>> It detects, but doesn't take action...
> >>>>
> >>>> I //solved// the matter by disabling SA cache by the way...
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, shuttlebox wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 2/28/06, Erik van der Leun <evanderleun at hal9000.nl> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Another issue I fail to understand...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since I've recently upgraded MailScanner to 4.50.15.1 and added
> >>>>> pyzor, razor2 checks, it sometimes occurs that spam is detected
> >>>>> well, but not tagged as spam.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In the mailheaders, I even see the spamscore, but the mail is
> >>>>> not treated as spam... just sent through the regular way.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No spam subject tag is added either.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> Post some headers and maybe some log snippets, otherwise it's hard
> >>>> to help.
> >>>>
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