Upgrade to 3.0 has increased my spam 100 fold

[Martin Hepworth]

Jim

looks like the upgrade is using some broken (non-3.x syntax) rules
somewhere.

use spamassassin -p /path/to/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -D --lint

to find out what rules are working anymore.

Also as Julian suggests the /etc/mail/spamassassin is the normal place
for 'local' rules to be placed.

I'd also check that you've not got spamd/spamc running/configured
somehow as the X-Spam-Status isn't a MailScanner header...

In order to find out what rules have what scores make sure the following
is set in MailScanner.conf..

SpamScore Number Instead Of Stars = yes

Include Scores In SpamAssassin Report = yes

Spam Score Number Format = %5.2f

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


Jim Van Etten wrote:
> For some reason when I upgraded my spamassassin to 3.0.1 from 2.6 most of
> the spam is getting through. I never had this problem before. I have cleared
> my bayes directory so it could start fresh.
>
> The header for X-Spam-Status looks like this for example:
>
> No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=FIN_FREE,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,
> FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_04,HTML_MESSAGE,
> HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY,URI_OFFERS autolearn=no version=3.0.1
>
> How in the world can the score be only 1.6 while detecting all the listed
> items. This should score much higher. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
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