Spam getting through...

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Rick Bragg wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm basically a newbe with just a few small domains.  I set up
| Mailscanner with sendmail/ spamassassin/ clamAV and it seems great
| except tons of spam are getting through.  They are mostly all marked as
| {Spam?} and are all delivered.
|
| Here is in my MailScanner.conf file
|
| Spam List = SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP
| SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL CBL
| DSBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL spamhaus-PBL NJABL
|
| Spam Domain List = SORBS-BADCONF SORBS-NOMAIL
|
|
| Do these look OK? How can I test these out?  Any advice to a newbe as to
| what I should do?

Read the book.

First off I think you are using way too many lists here. It will cost
you performance and speed of processing.

How are your messages classified? What scores do they get in general
from SpamAssassin? Did you tune your bayesian database?

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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