Hi list,

I just had a flood of spam coming through, which SA classified as
ham. On closer inspection, it turns out that the only tests
triggered for all those mails were HTML_MESSAGE and BAYES_99.

HTML messages are commonplace today (unfortunately), so they don't
add anything to the score.

BAYES_99 yields 3.5 points.

What's curious is that in this scenario, even though SA thinks that
the message is 99%-100% likely to be spam, it will always classify
it as ham, and further learning does not have any noticeable effect.

I know how SA scores are computed. I do wonder how that algorithm
applies to the BAYES_* tests though. Don't you think BAYES_99 should
yield > 5 points to trigger the threshold on default installs?
Shouldn't thus BAYES_* be renormalised?

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