Wednesday 10 May 2006 22:35 skrev Philip Mak:
> I've been getting a lot of spam lately ever since I moved my mail
> server to a new system. Here's one of the false negatives that slipped
> through, for example:
> [...]
> Why does ALL_TRUSTED have a score of -3.3? Doesn't this mean that any
> spammer who connects directly to my mail server has a good chance of
> getting past SpamAssassin?

Because trusting a host in this sense means that you trust it not to forge 
headers and not to originate spam.

> I did not define any trusted/internal networks when I installed
> SpamAssassin.

Big mistake (sorry). You should always set trusted_networks; otherwise SA will 
guess and invariably get it wrong. Too bad there's no Debconf for 
trusted_networks.

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Magnus Holmgren
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