Mark Martinec wrote:
> Jeff,
>
>> I have just started using Amavis and have a question regarding an
>> discrepancy between the Spamassassin header in a spam message and the
>> Spamassassin report included in the spam notification.
>>
>> Here is the report in the spam notification:
>> Content analysis details:   (22.0 points, 5.0 required)
>
>> And, here is the report in the header of the quarantined message:
>>
>> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=21.973 tag=-9999 tag2=8 kill=10
>>   tests=[AV:Sanesecurity.Junk.8084.UNOFFICIAL=0, AV_SS=7.5, BAYES_99=7,
>>   FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK=3.116, FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML=0.001,
>>   FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457,
>>   MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE=0.82, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS=2.077] autolearn=spam
>
>> How come the required value is only 5 in the spam notification while
>> in the config files and the header it shows as 8?
>
> As Daniel Luttermann explained, the '5.0 required' in the notification
> comes from 'required_hits' in local.cf, the whole text section is
> produced by SpamAssassin and not edited by amavisd - just inserted as-is.
>
> The tag2 and kill levels are what really controls the amavisd behaviour,
> the 'required_hits' in local.cf is never used, only spam score value
> is taken from SA.
>
> The discrepancy is purely a cosmetic issue. The '5.0 required' in text
> should be ignored, it has no effect. If it bothers you, the best
> approach is to set 'required_hits' to the same value as tag2_level.
>
>   Mark

Okay, that makes sense.  Thank you for the answer.

Jeff


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