Apache SpamAssassin Header

ceh2324

• November 20, 2014 07:23

Hello, I configured spamassassin score to 5 in cpanel but in the header it shows as follows: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 X-Spam-Score: -22 X-Spam-Bar: -- Here I am confused that there is "score" and X-Spam-Score", Please clarify what this scores indicates and how they are related to score defined in cpanel. Regards, CEH

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 21, 2014 12:42

  Hello :) Here is an explanation from a support ticket you might find useful: What happens is that the spam score people are used to dealing with are decimal values, and not integer values (e.g. 1.5, 30.9, 6.4, etc.). When SpamAssassin passes the value to whatever, it passes it as an integer, but to do that without losing any part of the score, it multiplies that decimal value, by 10. So when it does that, your score then becomes a 15 instead of 1.5, or a 309 instead of a 30.9 and so on. You can see this change take place within the headers of the emails since there are two headers that contain the spam scores. You have the more general X-Spam-Status which has two things, is it spam and the score that us humans are used to (the decimal score). Whereas X-Spam-Score has the score that's passed to other programs, the integer score, which is 10 times the previous score listed in X-Spam-Status.
  Thank you.

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  ceh2324

  • November 22, 2014 06:28

  Thanks a lot.

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