Scoring questions

Computer Bob bob at inter-control.com
Tue Jan 30 00:09:32 CET 2018


I just forward the entire mail.

On 1/29/18 4:52 PM, Dino Edwards wrote:
>
> Did you send all the headers of the emails that do not get handled 
> correctly?
>
> *From:*Computer Bob [mailto:bob at inter-control.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 29, 2018 5:25 PM
> *To:* Dino Edwards <dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net>; 
> amavis-users at amavis.org
> *Subject:* Re: Scoring questions
>
> Interestingly, most mail gets handled correctly, only a few get 
> through and show the odd scores and such.
> If I try and forward one of those that got through to another account, 
> they get handled properly and quarantined as spam !
> So I am waiting for one of those odd-balls.
> It's perplexing to me.
>
> On 1/29/18 3:58 PM, Dino Edwards wrote:
>
>     If you are using putty, can you enable logging in your session,
>     send an obviously spam message and send the debug output?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     *From:*amavis-users
>     [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydirectmail.net at amavis.org]
>     *On Behalf Of *Computer Bob
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 29, 2018 4:49 PM
>     *To:* amavis-users at amavis.org <mailto:amavis-users at amavis.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: Scoring questions
>
>     It starts with debug-sa, stays in the console window and puts does
>     not put debug-sa info into mail.log but displays it at the console
>     that called it.
>
>     On 1/29/18 2:33 PM, Dino Edwards wrote:
>
>         Please run amavisd in debug mode.
>
>         Stop the service
>
>         /etc/init.d/amavis stop
>
>         Then start in debug mode:
>
>         /etc/init.d/amavis debug
>
>         Open another session to your mail server and look at you
>         /var/log/mail.log and you should see the following upon
>         amavisd startup (or similar):
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:55.078 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: initializing Mail::SpamAssassin (0)
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:55.078 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: SpamAssassin debug facilities: info
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:55.712 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: SA info: zoom: able to use
>         315/360 'body_0' compiled rules (87.5%)
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:56.454 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: SpamAssassin loaded plugins:
>         AskDNS, AutoLearnThreshold, Bayes, BodyEval, Check, DCC, DKIM,
>         DNSEval, FreeMail, HTMLEval, HTTPSMismatch, Hashcash,
>         HeaderEval, ImageInfo, MIMEEval, MIMEHeader, Pyzor, Razor2,
>         RelayEval, ReplaceTags, Rule2XSBody, SPF, SpamCop, URIDNSBL,
>         URIDetail, URIEval, VBounce, WLBLEval, WhiteListSubject
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:56.455 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: SpamControl: init_pre_fork on
>         SpamAssassin done
>
>         Jan 29 15:30:56.455 mail.domain.tld
>         /usr/sbin/amavisd-new[8330]: extra modules loaded after
>         daemonizing/chrooting:
>         /usr/lib/perl5/auto/NetAddr/IP/InetBase/inet_n2dx.al,
>         Mail/SpamAssassin/CompiledRegexps/body_0.pm,
>         Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/FreeMail.pm, Net/DNS/RR/OPT.pm
>
>         *From:*Computer Bob [mailto:bob at inter-control.com]
>         *Sent:* Monday, January 29, 2018 3:24 PM
>         *To:* Dino Edwards <dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net>
>         <mailto:dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net>;
>         amavis-users at amavis.org <mailto:amavis-users at amavis.org>
>         *Subject:* Re: Scoring questions
>
>         Changes made, amavis restarted.
>         I have seen the following on all mails, I just was too lazy to
>         include it because I had to blank the server name...skuza..
>
>         X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at M1-2.myorganization.org
>
>           
>
>           
>
>         On 1/29/18 2:15 PM, Dino Edwards wrote:
>
>             Please try
>
>             $sa_tag_level_deflt = undef;
>
>             In
>
>             /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user
>
>             Do you see the X-Virus-Scanned header in the emails that
>             amavisd processes?
>
>             *From:*amavis-users
>             [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydirectmail.net at amavis.org]
>             *On Behalf Of *Computer Bob
>             *Sent:* Monday, January 29, 2018 2:40 PM
>             *To:* amavis-users at amavis.org <mailto:amavis-users at amavis.org>
>             *Subject:* Re: Scoring questions
>
>             I also agree that at this point auto learn should be off
>             and cleared as I have done.
>             But I still continue to get garbage mails through showing
>             headers such as:
>
>             X-Spam-Flag: NO
>
>             X-Spam-Score: 0.61
>
>             X-Spam-Level:
>
>             X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.61 tagged_above=-9999 required=5
>
>                      tests=[HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST=0.001, HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_04=0.61,
>
>                      HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001,
>
>                      T_REMOTE_IMAGE=0.01, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01]
>
>                      autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
>
>               
>
>             And as I said, when I run them through SA at the command
>             line they seem to score correctly.
>             The scores being given in the headers can't be correct as
>             they all are similarly low and wrong.
>             An interesting note is that if I try and forward one of
>             these received, they get flagged and sent to spam.
>             Without knowing the intricacies of the amavis procedural
>             steps, or were to start, it is not possible for me to
>             troubleshoot.
>
>
>
>
>             On 1/29/18 1:20 PM, Dino Edwards wrote:
>
>                 I disagree it's bad advice considering it's autolearn that seems to be creating at least some of the problems he's experiencing.
>
>                   
>
>                 However, I do agree, the AutoLearn Threshold should definitely be set IF you are going to be using autolearn but in my experience auto-learn creates more problems than it solves. I believe that only humans should be be used for training the bayes database. Auto-learning has the tendency to exaggerate issues over time.
>
>                   
>
>                 Keep it simple for now and train your bayes database and after you've trained it and it's scoring well, then consider using autolearn.
>
>                   
>
>                   
>
>                   
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>                   
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>                   
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>
>                 From: amavis-users [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydirectmail.net at amavis.org] On Behalf Of Benny Pedersen
>
>                 Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 1:06 PM
>
>                 To:amavis-users at amavis.org <mailto:amavis-users at amavis.org>
>
>                 Subject: Re: Re: Scoring questions
>
>                   
>
>                 Computer Bob skrev den 2018-01-29 18:57:
>
>                     I assume you mean bayes_auto_learn in local.cf. I set it to 0 from 1
>
>                     and restarted.
>
>                   
>
>                 yes its just bad advise, but setting this is what disables autolearn
>
>                   
>
>                 i suggest see autolearnthreashold instaed
>
>                   
>
>                 https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.3.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_AutoLearnThreshold.html
>
>                   
>
>                 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -5
>
>                 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 7.5
>
>                   
>
>                 let the spammers win now :)
>
>                   
>
>                   
>

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