Re: Problems with false positives

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Problems with false positives
\ Instituto de Ingenieria Área de (12 Apr 2007)
. \ David Rees (12 Apr 2007)
. \ mouss (13 Apr 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Problems with false positives
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	13 Apr 2007

Instituto de Ingenieria Área de Sistemas Unix/Linux wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Something weird is happenning with my spamassassin, you see. almost
> all of the users on my server are on an email notification system, so
> all of them receive the same message from the same address, it's ok
> and i even withelisted the address, the problem is that even then I'm
> getting some false positives, so of the 2000 mails, a significant
> portion (around 200) get classified as spam. Also none of my users
> has personal rules, so everything is filtered by my server.
>
> So why does spamassassin classifies some mails even though it's
> exactly the same message for all the addresses?

disable AWL, DCC, RAZOR, ...

if this doesn't help, ask on the spamassassin ML.

if you know the IP and sender address, you can skip filtering for these
messages using a combination of restriction classes and the FILTER
statement.