Spam score is negative, yet message is still marked as spam

[Jonathan B Bayer]

Hello Anthony,

OK, I understand that.  I've looked at SpamAssassin, and while I see
where it enables RBL checks, I don't see where I can specify which RBL
checks to do.


JBB


Monday, March 12, 2007, 9:42:14 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> Jonathan B Bayer wrote:
>> Hello mailscanner,
>> 
>> Hello all.
>> 
>> I have a new installation of MailScanner installed on a new mail
>> server.  The basic configuration is:
>> 
>> RedHat Enterprise 3
>> Postfix 2.1.3
>> Mailscanner 4.58.9-1
>> 
>> One of the users has been sending messages to the company president.
>> These messages are being marked as spam and moved to the spam folder.
>> 
>> However, when I examined the message headers, I found the following:
>> 
>> X-*****************_com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
>> X-*****************_com-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>> X-*****************_com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, spamhaus-ZEN,
>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> This mail hit the spamhaus-ZEN RBL, and you have MailScanner configured
> to mark as spam any message that hits on your RBLs.


> Personally I don't have MailScanner set to check any RBLs, I use the 
> scoring features on SpamAssassin for that.



>>  SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.17, required 6,
>>  autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60,
>>  HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY 0.23)
>> X-*****************_com-MailScanner-From: dmakhijani@*****************.com
>> X-Spam-Status: Yes
>> 
>> 
>> and the subject had the {Spam?}  inserted.
>> 
>> Why would this be marked as spam, if the score is -4.17 ?
>> 
>> What's even stranger is that the user's computer connects directly
>> with the mail server to send the email, so it isn't even going through
>> another relay.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> 
>> JBB
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Jonathan B Bayer,CEO           mailto:jbayer at BayerTechnologyGroup.com
Bayer Technology Group         Work: (609) 632-1200
23 Exeter Rd.                  Mobile: (609) 658-9408
East Windsor, NJ 08520