Spam full of random words not being stopped

[Julian Field]

At 14:05 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>Someone here on this list simply told me to add the bigevil.cf file in
>either /etc/mail/spamassassin or wherever your 50_scores.cf file is.
>
>And restart
>
>But how or can you tell if a rule set is being used?

Leave it a few hours and look for BIGEVIL in the lists of rules that hit
some of your spam.

>  I am still getting Habeas stuff to after adding score HABEAS_SWE -3.0 to my
>/etc/Mailscanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
>Its a little confusing to me being a newbie to mailscanner, knowing where to
>add rules and such... can they just not go all in one file somewhere?

They can all just go in spam.assassin.prefs.conf, but the BigEvil list
changes very frequently so it's easier to replace if you keep it in a
separate file.


>Thanks
>
>
>Rob Charles
>TheHostMasters
>Montreal, Canada
>514-846-0006
>Rob at TheHostMasters.com
>http://www.TheHostMasters.com
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Keightley" <mk at quadstone.com>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Spam full of random words not being stopped
>
>
> > Do you just add contents of this file to spam.assassin.prefs.conf, or can
>you
> > do an include?
> >
> > Michael
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:04:16AM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
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