On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:14:05 -0500
Ben Johnson wrote:

> About five months ago, I experienced a problem that I *thought* I had
> resolved, but I am observing similar behavior after retraining the
> Bayes database. While the symptoms are similar, the root cause seems
> to be different (thankfully). The original problem is documented at
> http://spamassassin.1065346.n5.nabble.com/Very-spammy-messages-yield-BAYES-00-1-9-td101167.html
> ..
> 
> In any case, I am again seeing SA scores that seem way too low for the
> message content in question. My "glue", as it were, is Amavis-New.
> 
> In particular, certain messages that are clearly SPAM are scored
> between 0 and 3 when processed via Amavis. However, if I process the
> same messages with the "spamassassin" binary, directly, the scores
> are much higher and much more in-line with what one would expect.
>...
> When I process the same message with spamassassin, directly
> (spamassassin -t -D < /tmp/msg.txt), the header looks like this:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=7.5 required=5.0
> tests=BAYES_50,MISSING_DATE,MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_MID,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_HEADERS_MESSAGE,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS
> autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1


This is not better, it indicates that SA didn't recognise it as an
email, not that it recognised it as a spam. Whatever /tmp/msg.txt was
it wasn't a properly formatted email.

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