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OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that is identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to identify certain messages as spam...BUT THEY KEEP GETTING THROUGH!
These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. Generally they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is one that uses the name "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of the actual proper spelling. Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would think.
I have now run "sa-learn --spam --dir Mail/Spam/cur" twice on this message. It comes back saying it "learned" from the message. About 10 minutes later that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come right through.
What the hell? I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this comes. I was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting through, then something inane and seemingly simple like this gets through inspite of "teaching" spamassassin to recognize it as crap.
Since spamassassin appears to be falling down on the job, what would be a nice generic procmail recipe that would recognize EITHER iteration of viagra spelling (in the body or subject) and pass it, no pass go, to /dev/null? I never ever ever want to see another damn viagra message of any kind ever again.
Thank you for any aid in this endeavor.
praedor
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Thats very interestnig..
I get about 80ish spam a day now.. increasing slowly, sometimes up to 120 a day,
I have spamassassin/amavis-new/filescan but the spamassassin is only 2.55.
I get maybe one or two slip though a day, and the spam filter in thunderbird captures those..
So I have a 99% effective spam filtering system,, and I am not using any external spamassassin tests.
That is my suggestion for you though, try turning on some of external tests in spamassassin, it does slow things down abit, but it can be very useful and spamassassin will learn from it..
The interesting thing, is that so many of the tricks spammers are usign to get around spam filters, are not working here.. a quick look throuugh the spam folder shows that nearly all of the messages are purposely incorrectly spelled and full of gibberish, and they still get caught.
rgds
Franki
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