recent increase in spam getting through

Dear Spamassassin, I've seen a recent increase in spam getting through Spamassassin... I've been getting groups of spam messages which have the same subject, often with zip attachments. Here's a screenshot from Mutt: 36604 N * Dec 15 %GIRL_NAME Lyon (0.2K) Re: Healthy soul in healthy body. O

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:07:33AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/15/2016 10:33 AM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > > Dear Spamassassin, > > > > I've seen a recent increase in spam getting through Spamassassin... > > I've been getting groups of spam messages wh

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Thank you, David. Sorry I should have known to give you a more verbose listing of the headers, I put one at the end for the "voicemail" spam. I'm using a friend's MTA, which is perhaps the source of the recent change - I'll have to check what they are doing. All my mail goes to a spool directory

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Dear all, Thanks for all the replies to my question, I think all of them were useful to read. Thank you all for your time. I wasn't sure whom to reply to, but I've been tinkering with my setup and I think that many spam messages are getting through which should be caught by the so-called "Bayesia

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Thanks again for the replies. I'm still investigating the problem, but I just noticed that "spamassassin" gives the message a score of 12.0, while "spamc"/"spamd" (which my mail setup is configured to use) still give it a 4.0. So it seems that something more mundane is going on, although I'm not s

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Thank you John, that does help clarify things a bit. Also thanks to Martin - I was typing this message when I received yours, but maybe this will answer some of your questions. I get the following results on the message whose tests I included below: - spamassassin -t : score 12.6 (BAYES_80) - spa

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

Hi Martin, Thanks for the reply. > Please keep your messages on the SA Users list. Here's my Cc line on the message you replied to: Cc: RW , "users@spamassassin.apache.org" I don't know why it wouldn't go through to the list, perhaps I shouldn't include spammy terms in the message body (I n

newbie questions: sought, sa-learn, rule weights

Hello Users! Apologies for asking multiple questions, I've just been reading https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ and have some things I wanted to ask. I'm getting a lot of spam, perhaps 25 messages/day, and about half of it gets through Spamassassin. I'm trying to figure out how to fix the situ

Re: newbie questions: sought, sa-learn, rule weights

Hi Reindl, Thanks for your reply. I replied separately to John about my Bayes setup - you were right, wrong user. Thanks for the advice about whitelisting being unnecessary. I hope that getting the Bayesian part working will make my setup effective without this. Thanks, Frederick On Sun, Oct