How to stop this spam?

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Sun Jan 18 22:46:28 GMT 2004


Hi!

> Can someone tell what's the best way to stop this type of spam: It only
> got 3.642.
>
> I also have my mailscanner.conf set to 5 for flagging and 9 for high spam
> deletion.

> X-century-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more
> information
> X-century-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-century-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=3.642,
>      required 5, BIZ_TLD 0.78, BigEvilList_131 3.00, HABEAS_SWE -8.00,
>      HTML_50_60 0.18, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.10,
>      MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI 1.10, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 2.25,
>      RCVD_IN_DSBL 1.10, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.55, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10,
>      WHY_WAIT 0.48)
> X-century-MailScanner-SpamScore: sss

As discussed multiple times on the list, lower the HABEAS_SWE to -1 or
something. -8 is way over the top it seems.

Also these ones are stopped a lot of the time with the BigEvil list, check
http://mailscanner.prolocation.net for a simple script to update that
list.

Bye,
Raymond.



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