[BlueOnyx:14178] Re: Solarspeed AV-SPAM V5

[Colin Jack]

Hi Michael,

> I have another idea what it could be. Please raise the score for these three
> rules to 900.
> 
> Three rules triggered for that particular email:
> 
> - AWL
> - UNPARSEABLE_RELAY
> - ZIP_ATTACHED_2
> 
> As far as I recall UNPARSEABLE_RELAY has a very low score or even a 0.0
> score.
> 
> The AWL score in this case is probably a negative, because you have received
> good emails from that source before.
> 
> That's why you get a 11.6 score instead of a 20 on that email. AWL probably
> reduced the solid twenty by almost half based on the established credibility and
> "non-spamminess" of this known sender.
> 
> If you bump the score to something ridiculous like 900, then AWL (or any other
> rule which lowers the SPAM score) won't prevent that mail from not being
> rejected at the MTA level.

That makes more sense. If that is the case, this also makes it easier to manage known good senders.
 
> There is one exception, though: If you whitelist an email address in the GUI,
> then emails with Attachments will go through, as whitelisted folks get a 900
> point "bonus", so that their stuff gets through no matter what.

Yeah - figured that one out early on with my testing :-)

Thanks for your help

Regards

Colin