the work-around mentioned above only works for the first spam that applies to
the metarules. With any further spam (that applies), scoring of the meta-rule
falls back to 1.0

Some output that demonstrates this can be seen at http://paste.phpfi.com/44492

Subject: Re:  scoring metarules in user_prefs does not work with spamc

Possibly related to this discussion on users:
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c043d01c4e7d7%2464874cb0%241225a8c0%40kittycat%3e

the same rules in local.cf with allow_user_rules disabled works perfectly

Herk in #spamassassin on freenode told me to attach the debug output of spamd
with enabled user prefs which will be done. Below you can find my local.cf and
my user_prefs

marco@pingu marco $ more /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
#
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###########################################################################
#
# rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM*****
# report_safe 1
# trusted_networks 212.17.35.
lock_method flock

# Allow ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs settings
allow_user_rules 1



marco@pingu marco $ more .spamassassin/user_prefs
# SpamAssassin user preferences file.  See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf'
# for details of what can be tweaked.
###########################################################################

# How many hits before a mail is considered spam.
# required_hits         5

# Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so
# "friend@somewhere.com", "*@isp.com", or "*.domain.net" will all work.
# whitelist_from        someone@somewhere.com
whitelist_from          *@dvdboxoffice.com

# Add your own customised scores for some tests below.  The default scores are
# read from the installed spamassassin rules files, but you can override them
# here.  To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to
# http://spamassassin.org/tests.html .
#
# score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn
score BAYES_99  3.8

# Speakers of Asian languages, like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will almost
# definitely want to uncomment the following lines.  They will switch off some
# rules that detect 8-bit characters, which commonly trigger on mails using CJK
# character sets, or that assume a western-style charset is in use.
#
# score HTML_COMMENT_8BITS      0
# score UPPERCASE_25_50         0
# score UPPERCASE_50_75         0
# score UPPERCASE_75_100        0

header MN_SUB_CONT_MANI Subject =~ /(^Mani\s|\sMani\s|\sMani)/
score MN_SUB_CONT_MANI          3.0
describe MN_SUB_CONT_MANI       Subject contains Mani [space]

header MN_TO_STARTS_MANI To =~ /^Mani\s/
score MN_TO_STARTS_MANI         3.0
describe MN_TO_STARTS_MANI      To begins with Mani [space]

# Test
#header    L_TO_ME   To =~ /mani\@access\.unizh\.ch/
#describe  L_TO_ME   Email addressed to me
#score     L_TO_ME   25.00




body            __SOBER_I_EMPTY_1      
/(?:\*-\*-\*.{10,60}\*-\*-\*.{10,60}\*-\*-\*|\+\+\+\+ User-Service.{10,60}\+\+\+\+M
ailTo|This account_hast_been_disabled|Protected message is attached|Your
password was changed successfully|Passwort Ihr Geb
urts-Datum|Viel vergnügen mit unserem Angebot|Im I-Net unter:|Ihrer Nutzungs-
Daten vornehmen|_does_not_like_recipient.|_do
es_not_like_sender.|The full mail is attached.|Aus Datenschutzrechtlichen
Gründen\, darf die vollständige E-Mail incl|ACCES
S\.UNIZH- Anti_Virus Service)/
header          __SOBER_I_EMPTY_2       Subject =~
/(?:Auftragsbestätigung|Ungültige Zeichen in Ihrer E-Mail|Registrationco
nfirmation|^Confirmation|illegal signs in your mail|Mailzustellung
fehlgeschlagen -Damon|Lieferungs-Bescheid|Mail_Delivery_
failure|Mailer Error|Mailer Error -Damon|invalid mail|Mail- Verbindung wurde
abgebrochen|Ihre E-Mail wurde verweigert|Ihre
neuen Account-Daten|Mailer-Fehler|^Info von|^Details$|Betr\.- Ihr Account|Fehler
in E-Mail)/
full            __SOBER_I_EMPTY_3       /Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=".{3,20}"\s[\s\t ]{2,5}--(?:Boundary|===
=)/i

meta            SOBER_I_EMPTY_A         (__SOBER_I_EMPTY_1 + __SOBER_I_EMPTY_2 +
__SOBER_I_EMPTY_3 == 2)
describe        SOBER_I_EMPTY_A         Empty SOBER.I virus
score           SOBER_I_EMPTY_A         10.0

meta            SOBER_I_EMPTY_B         (__SOBER_I_EMPTY_1 + __SOBER_I_EMPTY_2 +
__SOBER_I_EMPTY_3 == 3)
describe        SOBER_I_EMPTY_B         Empty SOBER.I virus
score           SOBER_I_EMPTY_B         15.0

Created attachment 2589 [details]
output of spamd -m 1 -c -H -D

user_prefs scoring has been fixed via r156655 in bug 4121.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4121 ***