More and more spam getting through

James Pifer mailscannerlist at TNJINFL.COM
Mon May 12 21:10:39 IST 2003


Thanks, I'll try that.

Required SpamAssassin Score = 5. I've lowered it to 4.

Thanks,
James

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:29, Matthew Bowman wrote:
> Hello
>
> You are not the only one to notice the increase in spam getting through.
> For what it is worth, we lowered our threshold to 4 which has helped
> a great deal. I am using SA 2.43 sendmail 8.11.6.
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> Mattthew.
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> James Pifer <mailscannerlist at TNJINFL.COM>
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> 05/12/2003 03:18 PM
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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>         Subject:        More and more spam getting through
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> Hi. We've been running MailScanner/SpammAssassin for quite some time now
> and like it a lot. It does seem as though over time more and more spam
> seems to get through.
>
> I've also noticed this on my home system, which is on a slightly newer
> release of MailScanner. It seems like I a couple spams a day get through
> now, where as before it was one every few days.
>
> How do people deal with this?
>
> Right now we run:
> MailScanner 4.13-3
> SpamAssassin 2.50-3
> Sendmail 8.12.8-5.80
>
> I know there are some newer versions of MailScanner out there, maybe
> that would help?
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> James



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