Spam full of random words not being stopped

[Rob Charles]

Thanks for clearing that up....

:)


Rob Charles
TheHostMasters
Montreal, Canada
514-846-0006
Rob at TheHostMasters.com
http://www.TheHostMasters.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "Rob Charles" <rob at thehostmasters.com>
Cc: <mailscanner at jiscmail.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Spam full of random words not being stopped


> 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
> > > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > > >
> > > > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michael Keightley <Michael.Keightley at quadstone.com>    Tel: +44 131
240
> >3137
> > > Systems Manager, Quadstone Limited,                    Fax: +44 131
220
> >4492
> > > 16 Chester Street, Edinburgh EH3 7RA, Scotland
> >http://www.quadstone.com
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
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