A lot of spam getting through

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at woodmclaw.com
Tue May 1 20:18:51 IST 2007


> > After looking at a few emails I can see that pyzor and DCC and bayes
are
> > scoring:
> > Score Matching Rule Description
> > cached not
> >  score=24.094
> > 6 required
> >  autolearn=spam
> > 2.17 DCC_CHECK Listed in DCC (http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/)
> > 0.33 FH_DATE_ISNT_2006
> > 0.77 FH_DATE_ISNT_200X
> > 0.40 FH_LEADINGPREP
> > 0.71 FS_START_BUY
> > 3.70 PYZOR_CHECK Listed in Pyzor (http://pyzor.sf.net/)
> > 0.61 SARE_SXLIFE Talks about your sex life
> > 3.81 URIBL_AB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the AB SURBL blocklist
> > 4.09 URIBL_JP_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the JP SURBL blocklist
> > 3.01 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the OB SURBL blocklist
> > 4.50 URIBL_SC_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the SC SURBL blocklist
> 
> Are these the scores that your system gives to one of the emails that
> are gettig through?  If so that scored 24 points.  So this email
should
> have been filtered.  This suggests to me that the problem isn't with
SA
> but with something in your MailScanner settings.
> 

This email was tagged as spam so good to go there.

> If these aren't the scores from one of the emails that are getting
> through can you save an email to a text file and send the output of
the
> following command:
> 
> spamassassin --test-mode < email.txt
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Anthony Peacock
> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
> WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
> "If you have an apple and I have  an apple and we  exchange apples
> then you and I will still each have  one apple. But  if you have an
> idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
> will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
> --




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