Mark A. DeMichele wrote:
I just received a reply from someone that consisted only of the following sentence: “Thanks for telling me”.

It got a BAYES_99 score.

Your system has likely auto-learned a few of the latest virus laden e-mails, which are usually in the form of a single sentence and a file attachment. The virus e-mails have many spam-like characteristics, which pushes them to the auto-learn spam score. Normal short e-mails don't have such characteristics, but they get the Bayes score, which is enough to push them over 5.


My system is setup to reject virus e-mails before calling SpamAssassin, thus avoiding this problem altogether.

Train the message as ham, and see how bayes handles the next one.

Steven
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http://www.mrchuckles.net

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