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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Tom Kinghorn <th...@gmail.com> on 2011/03/14 14:03:48 UTC

message passes yet scores high on command-line

  Good afternoon list.

I have a strange situation where i get messages getting delivered as 
"not spam" but when testing via command line, it scores well above the 
threshold?

what could cause this:

_*Setup: *_
Suse 11 SP1
Postfix               2.5.6
amavisd-new      2.6.2
clamav               0.96
spamassassin      3.2.5


Thanks

Tom

Re: message passes yet scores high on command-line

Posted by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> On 3/14/2011 9:03 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
>> Good afternoon list.
>>
>> I have a strange situation where i get messages getting delivered as
>> "not spam" but when testing via command line, it scores well above the
>> threshold?
>>
>> what could cause this:
>>
>> _*Setup:  *_
>> Suse 11 SP1
>> Postfix               2.5.6
>> amavisd-new      2.6.2
>> clamav               0.96
>> spamassassin      3.2.5
>
> The most common cause is that you are running SA as a different user,
> running with different options, or you are running a completely
> different SA installation.
>
> Our mind-reading doesn't work very well this early in the morning.  Post
> the SA results from the delivery and from your command line test so that
> we can see what's different.

... *including* the original message with all headers intact, uploaded to 
pastebin or a website you control.

About the only thing we can suggest from the information you provided is 
what Bowie said: different user-ids leading to different configs, as well 
as "URIBLs vary over time, maybe any embedded URIs to spam hosts are now 
listed", and "3.2.5 is quite old - you should upgrade".

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Re: message passes yet scores high on command-line

Posted by Bowie Bailey <Bo...@BUC.com>.
On 3/14/2011 9:03 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
> Good afternoon list.
>
> I have a strange situation where i get messages getting delivered as
> "not spam" but when testing via command line, it scores well above the
> threshold?
>
> what could cause this:
>
> _*Setup:  *_
> Suse 11 SP1
> Postfix               2.5.6
> amavisd-new      2.6.2
> clamav               0.96
> spamassassin      3.2.5

The most common cause is that you are running SA as a different user,
running with different options, or you are running a completely
different SA installation.

Our mind-reading doesn't work very well this early in the morning.  Post
the SA results from the delivery and from your command line test so that
we can see what's different.

-- 
Bowie