On 9/6/2019 11:45 AM, David Galloway wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running SpamAssassin 3.4.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Postfix and Mailman3. > > Occasionally, SpamAssassin will rewrite a message's subject with a score > higher than what's in X-Spam-Status. This is not a rounding issue. > > For example, I'm looking at an e-mail now with "***** SPAM 5.4 *****" in > the subject but "X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.2 required=5.0" > > AFAIK, there is no instance of SpamAssassin between the mail server and > me that > could have added the score to the subject.
The instance of SpamAssassin that changed the subject would have been before it got to your server. Since your server does not mark the email as spam, it doesn't change the subject, and so the previous markup is left there. If your server had marked the email as spam, then it would have either changed the number to be correct, or added a second spam tag to the subject (depending on how smart SA's subject rewriting routine is). -- Bowie
