I understand. In this case, my suggestion - to never lower the X-Spam-Status score if it already exists (and is higher than the newly calculated score) - is even more relevant. This would prevent mail score being lowered after going through more than one SA.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Leghart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Header problem, intermittent, SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 > It would be nearly impossible for every message to take the same path, > unless you close off your mail server to only itself. There is a > possibility that someone's relay is also using SA _before_ outbound > relaying. This could be an ISP or company/organization who is running > outbound message through SA. That would score and tag a message before it > ever reaches your SMTP relay. > > HTH, Alan > > --On Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:27 AM +0100 Yoav Aner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure I'm following you on this one... Mail does go through the > > same path - i.e. it's going to the same user account on the same server. > > And as for the other point, who else could be filtering for spam ? > > Definitely not the spammer, right ? and on the server, all mail do go > > through the same path. Mail gets delivered through procmail to > > spamassassin and based on the header it's either moved to a spam folder > > or not. > > > > Even if I am scanning it after someone else had scanned it, why would one > > email message be processed once and other message twice ? it's the same > > procmail, same server, same spamassassin installation, same user_prefs > > .... > > > <snip> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Header problem, intermittent, SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:31:34AM +0100, Yoav Aner wrote: > >> sure email is not scanned twice, and even if it was - then it would be > >> the case for all messages rather than just few. > > > > that would be true if you only get mail going through the same path > > all the time. it's likely not you scanning twice, you're probably > > scanning it after someone else scanned it. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
