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negative score

Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:20 pm
by amit290
Hey,

I was wondering why a negative scored e-mail would be tagged as spam by spamassassin (not the plesk psa-spamassin). I've had a look around but cant see the answer to this. From what I have read, a negative score should mean its ham.

Just as an example I had one this evening with a score of -0.6, and another -101.2. Both e-mails are from people I know. One via yahoo account, and another from btopenworld (an ISP account).

Thanks

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:54 am
by scott
First guess, some other server along the way changed the subject line.

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:37 pm
by mdtiberi
Just to be clear on this point. If SA returns a negative number then it effectively defeats it even if it is spam?

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:09 pm
by scott
Kind of, it depends on the rules at each hop along the way. My Project Gamera servers will regularly mark something up as spam that will get deleted on the plesk box, even if psa-spamassassin scores it negative.