Very bad score spamassassin

[Markus Nilsson]

----- Original Message -----

> From: "eric le corre" <eric_le_corre at msn.com>
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Sent: torsdag, 17 nov 2011 10:26:35
> Subject: Very bad score spamassassin

> Hello and sorry for my english,

> I have some trouble. I have SpamAssassin version 3.3.1, mailscanner
> 4.83.5, postfix 2.8.2 and mailwatch on Ubuntu.
> This server is configure as gateway for my exchange 2010. IT works
> fine, no problem to receive or send mails.

> The problem is that all my receive or send email have negative or
> very bad spamassassin score and I don’t know if it is normal or not.
> Sometimes Spamassasin find spam with score more than 10 but most of
> spam is not found or 0. For example, my last 10 email score.
> 4.86
> 
> -1.12
> 
> 0.00
> 
> -1.90
> 
> 0.00
> 
> 0.00
> 
> 1.75
> 
> 0.00
> 
> 1.01
> 
> 0.00
> 
> 0.00
> 
> -1.89
> 
> 0.00

Are these scores all for actual SPAM messages? 

> I dont use DCC client, razor or pyzor. When I do mailscanner –lint,
> there is no error.
Using some of these services would probably improve your scoring. 

> About my bayes on the server :
> 
> Bayes Database Information
> Number of Spam Messages:
> 1,035
> 
> Number of Ham Messages:
> 27,032
> 
> Number of Tokens:
> 997,996
> 
> Oldest Token:
> Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:00:00 +0200
> 
> Newest Token:
> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:01:30 +0100
> 
> Last Journal Sync:
> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:26:01 +0100
> 
> Last Expiry:
> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100
> 
> Last Expiry Reduction Count:
> 0 tokens

Do you manually train the BAYES database? 

Are the 27k Ham messages really only ham? Or does the dataabse contain wrongly trained messages? 
The oldest token is 8 years old, you should remove the old tokens from the database, and only keep more recent ones. Seems like you have never run an expiry run! 

> I don’t know if it is normal ? someone can tell me

> Thanks.

> Ps : When we post new topic, wen send to
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info , but how to respond to one topic
> open ?
Just reply to the message and it will end up in the same thread! 
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