On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> I have doing some checking of spam messages that make it through our 
> mail filtering systems and noticed that the spam score does not reflect 
> what I get when checking manually.
> 
> An example spam report:
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.068 tagged_above=-9999 required=5
> tests=[BAYES_50=0.001, HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP=3.066, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001]
> X-Spam-Score: 3.068
> 
> But when using "spamassassin -D -lint < $message" it hits more rules:
[...]
> 3.5 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
> 3.9 RCVD_IN_XBL            RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus XBL
> 0.0 RCVD_IN_PBL            RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus PBL
> 
> That is a big difference!
> Any ideas about why this is?

It appears that the first results are a) using a different Bayes DB,
and b) not using network tests (aka: local mode).

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