On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:19:50PM +0100, Jan Hugo Prins wrote:
> Is there anyone here that can explain me why I get more and more false
> possitives where this is in the header and the subject still has
> {spam?}
..snips..
> X-jhprins.org-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, Infinite-Monkeys,
> SpamAssassin (score=-1.6, required 5, IN_REP_TO -0.85,
> QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT -0.83, REFERENCES -0.52,
> SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE -0.30, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 0.78)
>
> I use one of the latest SA's with MailScanner on a RedHat 9 system.
Because - assuming that header was added by your system - you've got
lots of obsolete rules, presumably from an old installation that you
didn't fully replace. None of those negative-scoring rules
(IN_REP_TO|QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT|REFERENCES|SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE)
are in "the latest SA's", they were removed some time around 2.52
because of their potential for abuse by spammers.
'locate *.cf' should help you find any old rules files in old
directories.
Nick
