SpamAssassin accuracy

[Adrian Cooper <ad...@cooper.net>]

Hi,

I have been using Spamassassin for over a year now, until recently with 
great success in blocking almost all spam.

For the last few weeks however a large amount of spam has been arriving even 
though I set to filter on a score of -2. Previously I was blocking most spam 
on a score of 1.0

This is a very aggressive setting so I am wondering what I can do about this 
situation? Has Spam assassin relaxed its filters of late?

I know Spamd is working correctly on my servers.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Adrian.

Re: SpamAssassin accuracy

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 05:31 AM 6/22/2005, Adrian Cooper wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been using Spamassassin for over a year now, until recently with 
>great success in blocking almost all spam.
>
>For the last few weeks however a large amount of spam has been arriving 
>even though I set to filter on a score of -2. Previously I was blocking 
>most spam on a score of 1.0
>
>This is a very aggressive setting so I am wondering what I can do about 
>this situation? Has Spam assassin relaxed its filters of late?

Well, I'm wondering what's causing your situation.

Can you quote some X-Spam-Status headers from some of your problem 
messages? It's hard to guess what's going wrong without seeing some 
evidence of it.

Re: SpamAssassin accuracy

[Kai Schaetzl <ma...@conactive.com>]

Adrian Cooper wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:31:13 +0100:

> For the last few weeks however a large amount of spam has been arriving even 
> though I set to filter on a score of -2. Previously I was blocking most spam 
> on a score of 1.0 
>  
> This is a very aggressive setting

Indeed, *both* settings are overly aggressive to my taste. I use the standard 
of 5 and I get nearly zero spam. If you need to do that something's wrong.

 so I am wondering what I can do about this 
> situation? Has Spam assassin relaxed its filters of late? 

How should this happen since you didn't tell us if you did any updates in the 
meantime. If you didn't do any updates how should any "lowered" rules get in 
effect, anyway?

> I know Spamd is working correctly on my servers.

But it's obviously not configured correctly. Do you use any custom rules? Visit 
rulesemporium.com, use rulesdujour, use SURBL, visit www.exit0.us and check if 
your spam getting thru should have hit rules that it didn't hit.

BTW, apart from my obvious hints above, you need to provide more detail if you 
want more detailed tips ...


Kai

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