Spamassassin not catching spam

[tmasboa <ra...@liffland.com>]

hello, I just got SA set up on my server, and it does not seem to be working
very well.

Out of about 300 spam messages, only 30 were caught, with many of the false
-'s receiving scores like 2.x or something.

I have version 3.2.3 and it just doesn't seem to work well at all. I tried
editing local.cf and changing the level from 5 to 4 but it won't actually
change what SA is doing. Do I need to restart SA somehow? I have tried but
it won't let me do "spamassassin restart".

Thanks for your time.
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[Karsten Bräckelmann <gu...@rudersport.de>]

Please read the subject as an annoyed, pissed off grunt.

*Edit* ?!  Nabble provides a web-frontend, and calls it forum. However,
obviously they don't understand that they are dealing with a mailing
list. It is not a bloody forum.

They just managed to send out two DIFFERENT messages with the very same
Message-Id. Thank you Nabble, another reason not to like you.

  guenther


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main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
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Re: Spamassassin not catching spam

[Karsten Bräckelmann <gu...@rudersport.de>]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:59 -0800, tmasboa wrote:
> hello, I just got SA set up on my server, and it does not seem to be working
> very well.
> 
> Out of about 300 spam messages, only 30 were caught, with many of the false
> -'s receiving scores like 2.x or something.
> 
> I have version 3.2.3 and it just doesn't seem to work well at all. I tried
> editing local.cf and changing the level from 5 to 4 but it won't actually
> change what SA is doing. Do I need to restart SA somehow? I have tried but
> it won't let me do "spamassassin restart".

Yes, IFF you are running spamd, then you need to restart it after
changing the configuration.

'spamassassin restart' sure won't work, because 'spamassassin' is not
the server. You should restart spamd (if you are using it) exactly the
way you started it in the first place. Can't help on that, cause you
failed to give any information about your system and mail processing
chain.

Also, it is a bad idea to simply decrease the default, unless you really
know what you doing.


Given these overall low results, it seems network tests are either
disabled, or you got a major problem with DNS on that machine.


> Edit: i have trained about 1000 messages throuy the bay filter and about 100
> ham messages.

You need at least 200 ham and spam *each*, for Bayes to kick in.


Did you read the documentation provided and the wiki?

  guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}