R: R: R: R: Message quarantined as SPAM

Dominic Raferd dominic at timedicer.co.uk
Thu Jul 20 07:17:36 CEST 2017


You can set $sa_tag_level_deflt (different from $sa_tag2_level_deflt) to
lower level - mails with scores above $sa_tag_level_deflt will have spam
info header added; this header shows how amavis has calculated the score.

On 19 July 2017 at 14:02, Scappatura Rocco <Rocco.Scappatura at infracom.it>
wrote:

> Thank you for the answer.
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> Yes, you are right. Anyway I set ‘$sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.31’ too in
> amavis configuration.
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> I could agree for the differnce of the score of the message assigned by
> amavis and the score of the SA test of the quarantined message..
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> But, I would like to understand why amavis assigns a so high score (7.946)
> to a harmless message ..
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> Regards,
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> RS
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> *Da:* amavis-users [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+rocco.scappatura=
> infracom.it at amavis.org] *Per conto di *Dominic Raferd
> *Inviato:* mercoledì 19 luglio 2017 14:28
> *A:* amavis-users at amavis.org
> *Oggetto:* Re: R: R: R: R: Message quarantined as SPAM
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> On 19 July 2017 at 12:56, Scappatura Rocco <Rocco.Scappatura at infracom.it>
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> Hello.
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> Even after the changes done to the amavis configuration, I still notice
> that some messages has been blocked as SPAM. For example:
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> Jul 18 12:04:55 zzz amavis[18242]: (18242-14) Blocked SPAM
> {DiscardedInbound,Quarantined}, [195.245.231.137]:39849 [193.67.127.189] <
> orderfleet at example.org> -> <iagrossi at example.net>, quarantine:
> B/spam-BknEtFAN2Yh1.gz, Queue-ID: 31099D5C4B, Message-ID: <
> OF2B08DA46.86F90238-ON80258161.003760D6 at leaseplancorp.net>, mail_id:
> BknEtFAN2Yh1, Hits: 7.946, size: 170434, 551 ms
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> while the score I get while testing the messages is much lower that
> $sa_tag2_level_deflt (1.9 < 6.31):
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> Where is the problem? Why the message is tagged as SPAM and quarantined?
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> ​It is not $sa_tag2_level_deflt that determines whether message is
> quarantined, this only determines whether to add 'spam detected' headers in
> the emails.
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> Score above $sa_kill_level_deflt​ triggers evasive action (i.e. according
> to $spam_quarantine_method).
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> Also I am not sure you can rely on getting same spam calculation when you
> re-test a quarantined email as when it arrives from outside, perhaps this
> is why header shows score of 7.946 but retest only 1.9?
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