Unintended loss of spam...
Hi!
Being used to the steady stream of e-mail from debian-user and other
lists, the natural reaction when I came back from lunch to "No new
messages" was "WTF?"
So I began looking into logs, and while it seems that there were no
messages between about 14:01 and 14:51 (that's OK), there is one
message that I haven't seen:
2004-02-13 14:34:23 1ArdSU-00056O-Nw <=
kartkomiteen-owner@osi.uio.no.spam[munge] H=pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]
U=7411 P=esmtp S=5086 id=UCSOTRYMQVIYFKKZFPKAQ@comcast.net
2004-02-13 14:34:23 1ArdSU-00056O-Nw => kjetil <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
R=local_user T=mail_spool
2004-02-13 14:34:23 1ArdSU-00056O-Nw Completed
The message ID smells of spam, and while I have exiscan-acl to reject
spam above 12, it will state it plainly if it does.
In the syslog, it seems that it was indeed marked as spam:
Feb 13 14:34:18 pooh spamd[13139]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1]
at port 40657
Feb 13 14:34:18 pooh spamd[19617]: info: setuid to nobody succeeded
Feb 13 14:34:18 pooh spamd[19617]: checking message
<UCSOTRYMQVIYFKKZFPKAQ@comcast.net> for nobody:65534.
Feb 13 14:34:23 pooh spamd[19617]: identified spam (6.9/5.0) for
nobody:65534 in 4.7 seconds, 3380 bytes.
So, it seems I lost a spam message.
So what, you may say...? :-) Well, I don't like the idea of loosing
messages without intending to...
I have seen it err at the opposite end as well, failing to scan spam, it
happens with about 1 in 5000 messages, I would estimate. Easier to live
with, because at least I know when it happens.
I'm using the backports.org package: 2.63-0.backports.org.1
Well, it isn't a lot to go on here, I guess, but I thought I'd share it
just to hear your opinion.
Cheers,
Kjetil
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