Re: disinformation newsletter suddenly getting flagged as spam by spam assassin. whitelisting it doesn't help.

I was misunderstanding the problem when we were talking before.  I tho't
spamcop was tagging as spam and putting into held mail in spite of being
whitelisted....

Rev. Guido
> spamcop,
> is letting the mailing list through (probably because i have
> whitelisted it on webmail),

.... you are saying that SC isn't putting in held mail, but, in spite of
being whitelisted, it is still being 'examined' by SA

> but it's getting flagged as spam by spam
> assassin,

That examination by SA is making a SA score, in the tracker you
provided, the score would be a SA spam score

> and when it arrives on my machine, instead of getting
> routed to the disinformation mailbox, it gets routed to the spam
> mailbox.

Something in your system is reading the SA result that SC assigned and
flagging as spam

> i'm sure that it's not my mailserver that is flagging it as
> spam, because on my mailserver i have a procmail rule that makes an
> end run around spam assassin when it encounters a sender address at
> disinfo dot com.

Your system 'avoids' the SA scoring when something is whitelisted;  but
in this case SC has already provided a SA scoresheet even tho it was
whitelisted, which results in your system flagging as spam, even tho' SC
didn't [because of the whitelist]

> the only other place that i know of that's filtering
> my mail through spam assassin is spamcop.
>
> here's a tracking URL if that will help:
www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z730077084zf01b5c5b0e8415125bb1bcee1184e3a7z

That tracker shows that SC passed the item

X-SpamCop-Whitelisted: [email protected]

but then proceeded to rate it with SA 'anyway'

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=7.5

When your system gets/sees an item with a positive SA score, it is
calling it spam.

I don't have the 'answer' to your problem, but at least I understand it
correctly now, whereas I didn't before.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin