Re: Pls explain my false positive
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:00:43AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=3.1.9 X-Spam-Report: * 5.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list I don't see an explaination. Where is the explaination? It's right there. The AWL (think score averager) gave it a 5.3. Is SA taking into consideration that I previously sent a spam from the same address? Yes. That's what the AWL does. Was it flagged because the message was so simple? No Why did AWL *increase* the score rather than reduce? Because it's a score averager. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay How does SA know that the address is in the auto white-list? Because it looked in the database and the address was there? -- Randomly Selected Tagline: There are two things in life one should always remember: 1. Never tell everything you know. pgp86hKMmUywa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Pls explain my false positive
Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, I just installed SA on a stock CentOS 5 machine. I forwarded a spam to it and it worked. Then I sent a very short hi message that I would expect should make it through but it did not. From looking at the X-Spam headers: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=3.1.9 X-Spam-Report: * 5.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list I don't see an explaination. Where is the explaination? Why was this flagged? Is SA taking into consideration that I previously sent a spam from the same address? Yes, more information about auto white-list can be found here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist If you are testing spam assassin with spam or ham then you should not send it to yourself; but instead pipe the original message to spam assassin. i use something like this: cat SPAM_MSG | spamassassin -D OUTPUT_MSG Dan
Re: Pls explain my false positive
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:42:43 -0400 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:00:43AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=3.1.9 X-Spam-Report: * 5.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list I don't see an explaination. Where is the explaination? It's right there. The AWL (think score averager) gave it a 5.3. Is SA taking into consideration that I previously sent a spam from the same address? Yes. That's what the AWL does. Was it flagged because the message was so simple? No Why did AWL *increase* the score rather than reduce? Because it's a score averager. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay How does SA know that the address is in the auto white-list? Because it looked in the database and the address was there? Ahh, I get it. This is everything I wanted to hear. Thanks, Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Active Directory Kerberos SSO http://www.ioplex.com/
