Spam starting to slip in...

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 13:28:56 GMT 2010


I'd look at upgrading to 3.3.1 of SA and of course make sure you run
SA-update regularly.
-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 3 November 2010 08:15, Jason Ede <J.Ede at birchenallhowden.co.uk> wrote:

> For ages MailScanner and spamassassin have been doing a fantastic job and
> we’ve had almost no spam at all. However, recently I’ve noticed a slow but
> steady increase in spam that seems to be slipping past with a very low
> score. I’m still using some of the old sare rulesets (rulesets listed below)
> as they seem to be catching spam although the number these days seems to be
> dropping off apart from the adult one which is still quite effective. Could
> these be interfering with the standard rulesets in the version of SA
> installed (3.2.5 and perl 5.8.8)?
>
>
>
> Rulesets
>
> 70_sare_adult.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_header.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_obfu.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_specific.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_unsub.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_uri0.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 70_sare_uri1.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net
>
> sought.rules.yerp.org
>
>
>
> We also use spamhaus, spamcop,m barracuda and abuseat blacklists in the
> MTA. MS is 4.79.11, and I’ve the KAM rulesets and ScamNailer 2.09 and clamav
> with the sanesecurity addins.
>
>
>
> Are there any tricks I’m missing on this setup?
>
>
>
> Jason
>
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