4.57.4: SA score big, yet delivered

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Mon Nov 27 20:54:49 GMT 2006


Gang,

I've had to roll back to 4.56.7 because a bunch of spam got
delivered to people, including me, with no {Spam?} for a
score 5< x < 10, and no delete for High Spam.  I've stared at my
debug output, nothing strange.  The emails in question got 
properly tagged with SA scores (in the header and in the 
syslog output).  Yet nothing got tagged in the Subject line
or deleted.  Any ideas???

My setup: Solaris 10, SA 3.1.7, DCC, Razor.  An example set
of relevent mail headers:

To: <jaearick at colby.edu>
Subject: Your health, your care
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:29:57 +0000
X-Colby-MailScanner: ftbc
X-Colby-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SORBS-DNSBL, SpamAssassin (not cached,
     score=12.908, required 5, BAYES_99 3.50, DC_IMG_HTML_RATIO 1.00,
     DC_IMG_TEXT_RATIO 1.00, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 0.50, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
     INLINE_IMAGE 2.00, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 0.50,
     RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100 1.50, RAZOR2_CHECK 0.50,
     SARE_GIF_ATTACH 0.75, SARE_GIF_STOX 1.66)
X-Colby-MailScanner-SpamScore: 12.91

My MailScanner.conf settings:

Spam Modify Subject = start 
Spam Subject Text = {Spam?}
High Scoring Spam Modify Subject = no
Spam Actions = deliver header "X-Spam-Status: Yes"
High Scoring Spam Actions = delete
Required SpamAssassin Score = 5
High SpamAssassin Score = 10

Jeff Earickson
Colby College


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