Getting messages that are not spam as spam and the opposite !!!

[Martin Hepworth]

Idan

your installation of Spamassassin is quite old.

May I suggest you upgrade and install the additional rules from 
www.rulesemporiam.com. Also you may benefit from using the bayes 
filtering on SA as well. More info on the SA web site and mailing list.



--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Idan Plotnik wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am using sendmail-8.12.8-4 + mailscanner-4.25-14 + 
> spamassassin-2.44-11.8.x.
> 
> In the MailScanner.conf  I configure this:
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> #
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> # SpamAssassin
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> # ------------
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> #
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> # Do you want to find spam using the "SpamAssassin" package?
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> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> 
> Use SpamAssassin = yes
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>  
> 
> # SpamAssassin is not very fast when scanning huge messages, so messages
> 
> # bigger than this value will be truncated to this length for SpamAssassin
> 
> # testing. The original message will not be affected by this. This value
> 
> # is a good compromise as very few spam messages are bigger than this.
> 
> Max SpamAssassin Size = 90000
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>  
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> # This replaces the SpamAssassin configuration value 'required_hits'.
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> # If a message achieves a SpamAssassin score higher than this value,
> 
> # it is spam. See also the High SpamAssassin Score configuration option.
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> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset, so the SpamAssassin
> 
> # required_hits value can be set to different values for different messages.
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> Required SpamAssassin Score = 5
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> # If a message achieves a SpamAssassin score higher than this value,
> 
> # then the "High Scoring Spam Actions" are used. You may want to use
> 
> # this to deliver moderate scores, while deleting very high scoring 
> messsages.
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> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
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> High SpamAssassin Score = 7
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> The problem is this:
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> I am getting spam mails as non spam mails and non spam mails as spam mails.
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> This behavior occur not with every mail that he is spam ro not, its 
> happened without a logical explenation.
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> Another problem is that I am getting a spam messages form a fake email 
> address (known issue) in my domain, I mean that form example when I do 
> telnet in port 25 to my sendmail and tries to send spam inside the 
> organization the MailScanner don’t recognized him has spam!!!
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> Can someone give me a solution for this situation ?
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> Thanx
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