spamhaus-ZEN is found but no points are awarded?

Remco Barendse mailscanner at barendse.to
Tue May 26 10:55:53 IST 2009


I did a bare metal new installation of MailScanner. Everything seems to 
work ok but i am curious about one thing.

MailScanner checks the message against spamhaus-ZEN and finds it is listed 
but there is no score awarded to the e-mail.

Why is this? Now the spams are scoring lower than they should and they are 
now slipping through because they are just below the high scoring mark :

X-linuxgw-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, spamhaus-ZEN,
 	SpamAssassin (not cached, score=9.763, required 6, DCC_CHECK 3.00,
 	FH_HELO_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.50, FH_HOST_EQ_VERIZON_P 1.10,
 	HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR 2.94, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, RCVD_IN_PBL 0.51,
 	RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 1.61, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10)

And i guess that adding some points for ZEN listing should also help in 
getting the database improved?

Then a slightly different question, is using use_auto_whitelist a good 
idea?

Thanks list!


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