I have a default install of Redhat 5.2. I have mail scanner using it
and it appears to be creating a large number of false positives. The
version of SpamAssassin is version 3.2.4 which is running on Perl
version 5.8.8. I am using the latest version of mail scanner. I
beleive the problem lies with spamassasin. I have a test message which
is genuine. Running this through spamassasin with -t (test) mode as
described below gives the output below:
Running : spamassassin -t /tmp/rose2 gives at the bottom the following
(edited for privacy) report.
Spam detection software, running on the system "somehost.gold.ac.uk", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details.
Content preview: Hi .....content deleted for privacy.....
Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
0.0 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
0.0 MISSING_DATE Missing Date: header
So it seems (and I admit i am no expert here) that despite the low score
spamassasin is tagging the message as spam (the subject line gets a
{spam?} appended to on the output.
Can anyone help resolve this. The RH box is upto date with all the
spamassasin RPMs.
Thanks
Erik
