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

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

Jonathan B Bayer wrote:
> 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.


This is documented in the SA Wiki here:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists


You should also make sure that you have skip_rbl_checks set to 0 in 
either your SA local.cf or your MailScanner spamassin_user_prefs file.


> 
> 
> 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
>>> ---
>>> Superior solutions for small business, home office and home users
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
> 
> 
>> -- 
>> Anthony Peacock
>> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
>> WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
>> "If you have an apple and I have  an apple and we  exchange apples
>> then you and I will still each have  one apple. But  if you have an
>> idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
>> will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"If you have an apple and I have  an apple and we  exchange apples
then you and I will still each have  one apple. But  if you have an
idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw