HELP? Spamassassin is scoring lower than normal the last couple of weeks.

[Scott Silva]

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Joe Young spake the following on 11/3/2005 8:09 AM:
>  
> Help,
> 
> 	I am running on CentOS release 4.0 (Final) with Perl version
> 5.008005 (5.8.5) and MailScanner version 4.42.9.  Spamassassin has been
> scoring lower than normal for the last couple of weeks. Most of the untagged
> spam has been the geocities link spam and the emails that contain mostly
> images. Almost all of the spam emails are scored with BAYES_00 -2.60. What
> are some possible steps to change the bayes score without feeding it spam?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Joe Young
> 
In your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file you can change the score to closer
to zero, otherwise it will keep poisoning the bayes cache.

You could try score BAYES_00 -1.00, or add some more rules to help bump
the scores up.
The RulesDuJour setup at Fortress Systems (www.fsl.com/support)
Is an excellent addition to an excellent product.
There are also some rules floating around the list archives for the
geocities url junk.

Do the e-mails with mostly images score as such?
You could bump the scores on those.
It should hit either  HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* or  HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_*.
The scores on the latter are fairly low.
Look at http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html
for the default scores in 3.1.0
If you haven't moved up yet, you might just want to find some time.



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