Can anyone give me any ideas why SA is so inconsistent between different releases? For example I picked a spam to test a new installation of SA with. It had scored over 10 on a previous install. When the message arrived on my new box, it was scored at only 8.4. I downgraded to 2.40 and tried it again and again it was over 10 but not as high as it was with 2.41. The test spam is in NANAS:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=sell+stocks+and+buy+oil+now+group:news.admin.net-abuse.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=200210050235.g952ZXp01791%40blocker.rscubed.com&rnum=1 It scored like this: 2.40 13.9 X-Spam-Report: SPAM: ---- Start SpamAssassin results SPAM: 13.90 hits, 0 required; SPAM: * -1.8 -- Found a Resent-To header SPAM: * -0.9 -- Found a X-Authentication-Warning header SPAM: * -0.3 -- From: does not include a real name SPAM: * 3.5 -- MiME-Version header (oddly capitalized) SPAM: * 1.3 -- Bulk email software fingerprint (eGroups) found in headers SPAM: * 2.4 -- BODY: Opportunity - What a deal! SPAM: * 1.9 -- BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list SPAM: * 1.5 -- BODY: There is no obligation. SPAM: * 3.0 -- BODY: Spam phrases score is 13 to 21 (high) SPAM: [score: 19] SPAM: * 1.6 -- Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE SPAM: * 1.7 -- Message looks like Outlook, but isn't SPAM: SPAM: ---- End of SpamAssassin results 2.41 15.1 X-Spam-Report: SPAM: ---- Start SpamAssassin results SPAM: 15.10 hits, 0 required; SPAM: * -1.8 -- Found a Resent-To header SPAM: * -0.9 -- Found a X-Authentication-Warning header SPAM: * -0.3 -- From: does not include a real name SPAM: * 3.5 -- MiME-Version header (oddly capitalized) SPAM: * 1.3 -- Bulk email software fingerprint (eGroups) found in headers SPAM: * 1.2 -- Message-Id is not valid, according to RFC 2822 SPAM: * 2.4 -- BODY: Opportunity - What a deal! SPAM: * 1.9 -- BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list SPAM: * 1.5 -- BODY: There is no obligation. SPAM: * 3.0 -- BODY: Spam phrases score is 13 to 21 (high) SPAM: [score: 19] SPAM: * 1.6 -- Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE SPAM: * 1.7 -- Message looks like Outlook, but isn't SPAM: SPAM: ---- End of SpamAssassin results 2.42 8.4 X-Spam-Report: SPAM: ---- Start SpamAssassin results SPAM: 8.40 hits, 0 required; SPAM: * -0.2 -- Found a X-Authentication-Warning header SPAM: * -0.2 -- Found a Resent-To header SPAM: * 2.4 -- MiME-Version header (oddly capitalized) SPAM: * 1.3 -- From: does not include a real name SPAM: * 1.0 -- Bulk email software fingerprint (eGroups) found in headers SPAM: * 0.4 -- BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list SPAM: * 0.4 -- BODY: Opportunity - What a deal! SPAM: * 0.4 -- BODY: There is no obligation. SPAM: * 1.3 -- BODY: Spam phrases score is 13 to 21 (high) SPAM: [score: 19] SPAM: * 0.5 -- Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE SPAM: * 1.1 -- Message looks like Outlook, but isn't SPAM: SPAM: ---- End of SpamAssassin results Now I can understand it scoring higher over time as SA's rules get better and better at matching spam. However I really don't understand why a new release would score it lower, especially looking at the specific rules that were scored lower. Can anyone shed any light on this? Many thanks Justin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
