More spam after spamassain upgrade

[Stephen Swaney]

Sanjay,

I believe that you should be at version 2.55 of SpamAssassin. This
should make a difference.

Steve
Steve Swaney
Steve at Swaney.com


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Sanjay K. Patel wrote:

> Thanks for the response,
> Here are the headers. I am using version 2.52
>
> SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.4, required 5,
>         FOR_JUST_SOME_AMT 0.18, HTML_50_60 0.10, HTML_FONT_BIG 0.22,
>         HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE 0.10, HTML_FONT_COLOR_GRAY 0.10,
>         HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED 0.10, HTML_WEB_BUGS 0.10,
>         ORIGINAL_MESSAGE -0.50)
>
> This was the normal buy Norton junk. It should have scored higher.
>
> SKP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Martin Sapsed
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:23 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: More spam after spamassain upgrade
>
>
> Sanjay K. Patel wrote:
> > We are seeing more spam getting through after upgrading spam assassin to
> the
> > latest version. Even the buy Norton cheap spam is getting through. All the
> > spam scores below our threshold of 5.
> >
> > Have the spammers got smarter or do we need to fine tune something?
>
> Can you post the headers for e.g. a "buy Norton cheap" message which got
> through - the categories SA lists might help us to advise you. Which
> version do you mean by "the latest version"? What platform? What version
> of MailScanner etc etc
>
> I'm using a copy of 2.60 from a little while ago along with DCC (with
> it's score raised) and virtually nothing gets passed that.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Sapsed
> Information Services               "Who do you say I am?"
> University of Wales, Bangor             Jesus of Nazareth
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