Re: Going from procmail based SA to spamass-milter produces more spam

[John E Hein]

Ken Long wrote at 12:58 -0500 on Oct 30, 2006:
 > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:03 -0600, John E Hein wrote: 
 > > And take a look at 'spamassassin -t' scores for a particular
 > > spam that you received vs. the scores you see in the mail header.
 > 
 > Ok, I tried that, but I seem to be getting erratic results.  One message
 > was identical, but another had differences.
 > 
 > And here's an interesting twist.  I have spamass-milter set to reject
 > mail that matches my threshold.  I had spamassassin set to tag it prior
 > to going to the milter.  Just for kicks, I turned back on my procmail
 > filter so that now mail is first processed by spamass-milter and then
 > processed by spamc in my procmailrc file.  Messages that make it through
 > the milter are now being tagged as spam by SA, using the exact same
 > preferences and bayes db.  What could cause that???
 > 
 > Any thoughts??

Three...

"erratic results" doesn't tell me much.

I don't use the reject flag (-r) in spamass-milter, so I
can't comment on that.

Try using -d for spamass-milter.