Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 09:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Why is the piece of software called "amavisd-new" at Relay1.suse.de
> > keeps evaluating some messages posted to this forum as spam and
> > accordingly sticking the word SPAM at the beginning of the subject
> > field? You will see this if one looks at the full header to an original,
> > newly posted SPAM message in this forum.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> > This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1
>
>
> Take a look in the headers to see why:
>
> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at Relay1.suse.de
>  X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=7.4 tagged_above=-20.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_95,
>  DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS
>  X-Spam-Level: *******
>  X-Spam-Flag: YES
Yes, which is why mentioned looking at the full header and why I 
mentioned Relay1.suse.de .

The question is why is the spam scanner finding so many "hits" in some 
messages? And if it is tagging messages as SPAM then why is it allowing 
them through to be posted in this forum? Why have a filter which does 
not filter :-) ?

Cheers.

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This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1