Re: Spam from hotmail servers - how to kill?

[Henrik K <he...@hege.li>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:10:32PM +1000, James Robertson wrote:
>
> Recently we noticed an increase in junk and discovered that it's coming  
> from Hotmail (and to a lesser extent Yahoo).
>
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.144 required=5.31 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599,
> ...
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.728 required=5.31 tests=[BAYES_50=0.001,
> ...

Bayes playes a big factor here. Train it better.

Also more people might find this useful:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5861

SA 3.2.5 requires the DKIM patch there. Otherwise you come up with too many
clean tokens from places that sign all mail.

I've had good results also with the patch there that removes all
"(?:gmail|yahoo|hotmail)" tokens. They are just too common and are biased to
be ham.

Please reply to spamassassin-users, remove postfix-users.