Dr. Juergen Klueners wrote on Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:16:10 +0200 (MET DST): > I am using spamassassin and it works well. Today I got a lot of false > positives for the reason that
These are not false positives, they are false *negatives*! The "-" indicates non-spamminess. > > score USER_AGENT_FORTE -2.900 > score USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA -6.400 -6.300 -2.900 -6.300 > score USER_AGENT_KMAIL -5.800 -5.801 -6.300 -6.400 > score USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA -5.801 -5.800 -5.701 -6.300 > score USER_AGENT_MSN -2.900 > score USER_AGENT_MUTT -6.400 -6.400 -6.300 -6.300 > score USER_AGENT_TONLINE -2.900 > score USER_AGENT_XIMIAN -6.400 -6.300 -6.300 -6.300 I believe these heavy negative scores have been removed from SA-2.60, anyway, because they can be easily forged. > > the mail was sent using MOZILLA. Is there a reason that > one gets that many negative points for using a special mail > program??? Are you sure that these hits were counted toward your score or not just in that mail because they were inserted at an earlier stage of delivery? (= forged). If you are sure, double-check that there shouldn't be all those hits and then submit it as a bug to the Bugzilla at spamassassin.org. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
