"Bruce Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/17/2004 01:35:59 PM:
> I'm begging for mercy here. I KNOW this must be a newbie type
> question, and I have been searching for an
> answer for WEEKS, but I haven't been able to figure it out. Please,
> somebody, take pity on a poor SA
> newbie and tell me what the **** is going on before I go postal!
> (Meaning no offense if you're a postal
> employee.)
>
> This is a brand new x86 system, with a fresh load of RH9, the latest
> SA, PERL, and the latest everything
> (as of about a month ago). How do I know it's the latest? Because
> I sat here and downloaded and
> installed the latest! I get no error messages when I start
> spamassassin or spamd, and it appears to
> process correctly. HOWEVER: EVERYTHING is marked as spam,
> regardless of its score. That includes the
> sample-nonspam.txt file, which is correctly scored at 0.0/5.0, but
> is still marked as spam, as below:
>
>
[snip]
> ************ L O O K H E R E ****************
>
> Spam detection software, running on the system "domain.com", has
> identified this incoming email as
> possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so
> you can view it (if it isn't spam) or
> block similar future email. If you have any questions, see the
> administrator of that system for details.
>
> Content preview: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- TBTF ping for
> 2001-04-20: Reviving T a s t y B i t s f r o m t h e T e c h n o l o g
> y F r o n t [...]
>
> Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required)
>
> pts rule name description
> ---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
> 0.0 LINES_OF_YELLING BODY: A WHOLE LINE OF YELLING DETECTED
>
>
>
>
> This was generated using a pretty standard test command (as root):
> spamassassin -t < sample-nonspam.txt > nonspam.out
>
> Can some really nice person (or even some mean person, I don't
> really care) tell me WHY sample-nonspam.txt
> is getting marked as spam? please? pretty please?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Bruce Diamond
> Computer HelpLine, Inc.
> 215-953-9930
> Your Outsourced Computer Department
>
>
Perhaps you can call Computer HelpLine... Sorry, I couldn't resist.
What program is generating the E-Mail message? Mailscanner, amavisd,
mimedefang, something else? It looks like SA is correctly tagging the
message, but some other program is not interpreting the results properly
and flagging it as spam.
Andy
