Re: SA scores 9, 13, or 19 but places message in Inbox

[JamesDR]

Saleem Hasan wrote:

Hi,

I am new at spam filtering and have recently installed SA 3.1.1 on a
RedHat E L 3 mailserver. I am using a procmailrc to invoke SA and
.procmailrc for individual users. There are two spam folders, one for
score between 5 and 10 and the other for spam score >= 10. I read the faq
on rounding issues in Filtering and Labeling but my problem is slightly
different. I find that 3 or 4 times I have received messages in my Inbox
(Pine) that score 9 or more when scanned manually with SA. I have a
spamtrap to which I can send false negatives but this is different because
SA scores the message (manually) at a level where it should send it to
either one of the spam folders and not to Inbox. It would be
understandable if, due to insufficient learning, SA scored the message
low and placed it in the Inbox. I have received a couple of hundred spam
messages and 3 or 4 such messages (with scores 9, 13, 19) have gone to

Saleem

the Inbox. Thanks

Sounds like a Pine issue... If SA is scoring the mail properly, you'll want to take a look at why Pine may not be putting those mails in the proper place... That said I don't use Pine, I use Thunderbird and it doesn't have an issue with the Spam marking (however, I don't sort the mail out to different boxes (folders if you will))

All shots in the dark I know, but SA isn't a MDA or a MUA, but a scanner.

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Thanks,
JamesDR

How does mail in general get your Inbox? I'm assuming that it gets there via POP3. If so, again what are your filters in Pine doing? Is there a log for Pine filters?

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