Spam full of random words not being stopped

Sylvain Phaneuf sylvain.phaneuf at IMSU.OXFORD.AC.UK
Fri Jan 16 10:41:22 GMT 2004


I see today they have 194 rules in the BigEvil list. Is it known whether
the number of custom rules like those have an impact on the performance
of MS or SA?



Sylvain

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>>> mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 16/01/2004 10:04:16 >>>
At 09:35 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>Been getting lots of Spam recently which just contains lots of random
words.
>These aren't being marked as Spam (using MailScanner-4.25-14 +
SA-2.61).
>I've attached a couple of examples.  Is there anyway to stop this
stuff?

Try adding the BigEvil.cf rules file to your SA setup, as it may well
help
with this.
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