SA Bugzilla – Bug 6791
Misleading message implies all mail is spam
Last modified: 2012-04-22 13:24:54 UTC
Suggestion: If the X-Spam-Status result is no, the X-Ham-Report string shouldn't still imply that the message is spam. Details: Almost every message processed by SpamAssassin has a header in it that reads: X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software... has identified this incoming email as possible spam. This is despite the fact that the software has actually identified the message as NOT spam. Here is an extract from a typical email header: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 X-Spam-Score: -56 X-Spam-Bar: ----- X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "cl46.justhost.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original… It is very easy for a user attempting to set up spam-filtering rules in his mail client to open up a piece of known spam, see this string, and set up his rules to trigger on it, not realizing that the same string also occurs in almost every NON-spam message.
I believe this is resolved in trunk. Regards,KAM *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6566 ***