Spam slipping through

[Richard Frovarp]

Drew Burchett wrote:
>
> I’m not sure if this is a MailScanner problem or a SpamAssassin 
> problem, but someone here will at least be able to help me narrow it 
> down. I am running MailScanner 4.57.6 on Suse Linux 10.1. My MTA is 
> Postfix 2.3.6 and I’m running SpamAssassin 3.1.7.
>
> The problem I seem to be having is that a lot of spam is getting 
> through. I’m monitoring it with MailWatch and there are a lot of 
> messages that are obviously spam that are getting fairly low scores 
> because they simply aren’t hitting any rules (or at least not very 
> many rules). However, when I run spamassassin –D –p /path/to/my/config 
> </path/to/archived/mail, it will almost always come back hitting tons 
> of rules and scoring very high. Running spamassassin –D –lint shows 
> that I have a few unresolved dependencies in some of the SARE rules 
> that I’ve downloaded, but I would think that if that were causing 
> problems, it would cause problems with running it on the command line 
> as well. I’ve checked my syslog and there are only two instances of 
> SpamAssassin timing out and being killed over the past four days. 
> Beyond that, I’m not even sure where to look. Does anyone have any 
> suggestions for what may be wrong, or at least how to troubleshoot 
> this problem?
>
> Drew Burchett
>
> United Systems & Software
>
> Ph: (270)527-3293
>
> Fax: (270)527-3132
>
Is this -p /path/to/my/config being read by MailScanner? And of course 
any URIBL, DNSBL, or checksum (DCC, Razor, Pyzor) hits can be a matter 
of timing.