MailScanner increasing score over threshold but message passed as clean?

Edward Prendergast edward.prendergast at netring.co.uk
Tue Apr 8 11:08:41 IST 2008


I've hiked up the score below:

Treat Invalid Watermarks With No Sender as Spam = 3

But when this pushes the spam score over 5 with the addition of SpamAssassin
hits (my spam threshold is 5, high scoring spam is 10) the message gets
passed as clean. It appears that the score is getting added but ignored.

These are the hits from SpamAssassin:
cached	not	 
	score=2.197	 
5	required	 
2.00	ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE	Message is some kind of bounce message
-2.60	BAYES_00	Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
0.10	BOUNCE_MESSAGE	MTA bounce message
2.70	FH_FROMEML_NOTLD	E-mail address doesn't have TLD (.com, etc.

This is the total score (as reported in MailWatch):
SpamAssassin Score:	5.20

Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug?

MailScanner -v output:
Running on
Linux server10.netring.co.uk 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 10:37:33
EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)

This is MailScanner version 4.66.4
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.16    Archive::Zip
1.04    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
2.27    Date::Parse
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.74    File::Basename
2.09    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.08    File::Path
0.19    File::Temp
0.90    Filesys::Df
1.35    HTML::Entities
3.56    HTML::Parser
2.37    HTML::TokeParser
1.23    IO
1.14    IO::File
1.13    IO::Pipe
2.02    Mail::Header
1.86    Math::BigInt
3.07    MIME::Base64
5.425   MIME::Decoder
5.425   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.425   MIME::Head
5.425   MIME::Parser
3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.425   MIME::Tools
0.11    Net::CIDR
1.09    POSIX
1.18    Scalar::Util
1.78    Socket
1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
0.13    Sys::Syslog
1.86    Time::HiRes
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
1.36    Archive::Tar
0.21    bignum
1.82    Business::ISBN
1.10    Business::ISBN::Data
0.17    Convert::TNEF
1.08    Data::Dump
1.814   DB_File
1.14    DBD::SQLite
1.56    DBI
1.15    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.36    Digest::MD5
2.11    Digest::SHA1
1.00    Encode::Detect
0.17008 Error
0.18    ExtUtils::CBuilder
2.18    ExtUtils::ParseXS
0.44    Inline
1.08    IO::String
1.08    IO::Zlib
2.21    IP::Country
0.21    Mail::ClamAV
3.002004        Mail::SpamAssassin
v2.004  Mail::SPF
1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
0.19    Math::BigRat
0.2808  Module::Build
0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
0.62    Net::DNS
0.002.2 Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
missing Net::LDAP
 4.004  NetAddr::IP
1.94    Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
2.56    Test::Harness
0.95    Test::Manifest
1.98    Text::Balanced
1.35    URI
0.7203  version
0.62    YAML


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