Spamassassin rules not firing correctly

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Sat May 3 12:13:21 IST 2014


You can hand feed corrections via trusyed users, but Ive found that
autolearn just stuffs up the bayes db

Martin

On Friday, 2 May 2014, Stef Morrell <stef at aoc-uk.com> wrote:

>  Would you bother with bayes at all then? It would be impossible to hand
> sort my corpus.
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> Stef
> also turn off autolearning - found this not great for a population of more
> than a handful of users.
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> On 2 May 2014 11:13, Stef Morrell <stef at aoc-uk.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stef at aoc-uk.com');>>
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> Hello Kai,
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> On 02 May 2014 10:16 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > This is a common misunderstanding. SA via MS may not use the same config
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> Yes, I take on board the technical suggestions. I've basically been
> through all those checks. :)
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> I am now starting to believe there is actually nothing wrong and that
> given I'm seeing apparent fails on blacklist rules is because the domains
> aren't blacklisted at the time the spam is generated.
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> moms-flowersbouquet-nice.me - registered end of 30/04/2014, spam arrived
> early 01/05/2014
> russianbrides-dating-great.me - registered 11 hours ago, spam arrived 3
> hours ago.
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> So the problem is likely not MS, it's how to detect and deal with spam
> from brand new domains/ip.
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