I have recently installed spamassassin on my mail server. I have supplimented it with a few rules of my own in local.cf and it is doing a great job, catching ~90-95% of the spam.
However, I got this one crazy message today that seems to be ignored by most of the rules and I can't figure out why?? As is, the message gets a rather low score (3.8) being caught by only a handful of rules. However, if I make ANY changes to the first part of this mime message (the text part) then the message gets a much higher score (15.8) that would cause it to be tagged, correctly, as spam. By ANY change, I mean I can add a blank line, delete a blank line, insert any single character, etc. I don't understand this behavior so I have no idea how to counter it. Any thought, suggestions or info?? Included are two attachments, one is the original message, the other is a copy to which I have added a single character. The first scores 3.8, the second scores 15.8 (9.8 if no local rules). Thanks, -- Andrew L. Bereson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800)307-5754
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