Scanning for Spam

[Martin.Hepworth]

Angelo

What 'extra' rules have you in /etc/mail/spamassassin.

Ones from www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html and
www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm ?

Are you running DCC/razor2?

Have you got SA version 3.1.7 AND run sa-update recently?

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of am.lists
> Sent: 08 February 2007 23:20
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Scanning for Spam
>
> We've all seen the "investor alert" messages.
>
> Thanks to Fuzzy OCR, I'm not getting them any more. The OCR scanning
> is picking them all up is very effective.
>
> But now, I'm seeing the plain text ones coming in. I know, I'm getting
> pretty greedy to expect a 100% effectiveness rate of my spam
> filtering, but it seems it should be possible to stop this stuff.
>
> My question for the list....
>
> What is the consensus method for rolling these to a halt?
>
> -- Are you tweaking existing rules that center on dial-up lists, bogus
> helo, invalid reverse dns?
> -- Are you using MCP for words like "investor" and other keywords?
>
> I'm currently using pyzor, razor, dcc, rules du jour, and fuzzy ocr
> (with all [or most] of its plugin/helper apps).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Angelo
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