R.Smits wrote: > Hello, > > We sometimes have in our loggin for spamassassin the following entry : > > mail_id: 3pCjeOEN7rlE, Hits: -, size: 6408, queued_as: 6B9B150489, 185 ms > > This seems normal, but there are some blacklisted url's in this message, > so it seems that spamassassin is "giving up" because it does not know > the type or something. > > Are there reason's why SA gives the message : Hits: - > > Ofcourse there is the possibility that no spam rules hit, but in this > case, this was not the issue.... > > Greetings.. Richard Smits > No, no spam rules hitting would be hits of 0. Hits of - suggests that spamc never passed the message to spamd (assuming you're using spamc).
Was the message larger than 500k (or whatever you're other threshold passing with -m on the spamc command-line)? If so, that's why. Spamc has a max-size threshold, after which it will just skip a message. This prevents SA from bogging down scanning an absurdly large message.
