On 9/6/19 12:06 PM, David Galloway wrote:
> 
> On 9/6/19 12:01 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> 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).
>>
> 
> I didn't start seeing the subjects being changed until after I enabled
> SpamAssassin on my mail server though.  I don't /think/ I'm crazy but as
> a litmus test, I just added my server's hostname to the rewrite_header
> Subject parameter and will wait for spam to come in.
> 

I'm not crazy!

https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/d...@ceph.io/thread/GN3DLKWDIW2NUDO4T4MZG6E5FQEIB7NN/

7.3 in the subject (that my SpamAssassin instance definitely set) and:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on lists.ceph.io
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT,
        MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,
        SUBJ_OBFU_PUNCT_FEW,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
        version=3.4.2

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