--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:52 AM -0500 "Frank M. Cook"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I'm having a problem with blank messages.  Sometimes the source only
> shows a return path.  I think it may be a spamassassin issue.  I'm using
> winspamc and the guys on their forum suggested the problem might be
> caused by checking messages that have already been checked such as
> forwarded messages. 

Wouldn't matter. I've checked messages 3, even 4 times.

Have you manually tried scanning messages, both messages that have and
haven't been scanned?

What version of SpamAssassin?

> Technically what I'm doing is a winspamc < input_message > temp_file and
> then overwriting the input message with the temp_file if the error code
> says it was spam.  Assuming the problem is indeed messages that have been
> checked before, should I just delete anything that is tagged X-Spam: Yes
> before calling spamassassin?  

Couldn't hurt, but if you're not sure that's the problem, that may not
solve anything.

Could the problem possibly be more than one messages trying to be scanned
at the same time?

> I don't suppose it's safe to skip testing anything tagged X-Spam: No as
> the spammers could just put that in their messages.  Is there something
> some header line to look for to skip SA testing? 

Probably not a smart idea. Spammers will try anything.


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