problem - mail to/from isc.org thought of as spam

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:34:32PM +0200,
 Robert Cates <robert at kormar.de> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> I have exim 4.54 running with spamassassin 3.0.4, and I have my 
> user_prefs set with 'whitelist_from   *@isc.org' and 'whitelist_to   
> *@isc.org' but all mail to/from the mailing list gets put in my spam 
> folder.  Does any body have an idea why?

SpamAssassin tells you why in the email headers. An example:

X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Report:
        *  1.9 SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_C Subject contains a gappy version of
	'cialis'
        *  1.1 DATE_IN_PAST_96_XX Date: is 96 hours or more before
	Received: date
        *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
        *  0.5 HTML_OBFUSCATE_05_10 BODY: Message is 5% to 10% HTML
	obfuscation
        *  1.5 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY: Razor2 gives confidence
	level above 50%
        *      [cf: 100]
        *  0.1 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/)
        *  1.4 DCC_CHECK Listed in DCC
	(http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/)
        *  0.8 DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU Obfuscated reference to an erectile
	drug
        *  0.0 DRUGS_ERECTILE Refers to an erectile drug
        *  0.2 DIGEST_MULTIPLE Message hits more than one network
	digest check
        *  3.0 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS
	Outlook