Hello everyone,
I recently installed SpamAssassin 2.50 from the SuSE 8.2 distribution CD. It already filters out lots of spams so I don't have to read them, but there are still several messages a day that are not detected as spam.
2.50 is HIGHLY vulnerable to spammers evading it due to bug 1589. I'd advise 2.54 or newer if you're getting false negative problems..
Either that or 0 out the scores for REFERENCES and other affected rules.
For that purpose, I made a maildir folder where I collect all messages that were not detected, but that I do consider to be spam. A shell script that runs from the cron every 15 minutes reports each message in that folder using spamassassin --report. Then it moves the message to another folder.
What worries me is that if I, after reporting the message, pass the message through spamc again, it still doesn't consider the message to be spam.
spammassassin --report won't guarantee that the message will suddenly be considered spam. It just reports it to razor and similar services and runs it into the bayes learner.. if you're not using bayes or razor or similar tools, it doesn't even do anything at all that will impact the score of the spam.
If you're a bug 1589 victim, the score will be way too low for razor, dcc, pyzor and bayes to make up for. So even if you have all those things on and they fire, it can still be negative.
Does anybody know why these messages that I reported to the pyzor / razor / dcc databases still don't get detected as spam ?
You'd have to give us more information. An X-Spam-Status header from a message that didn't get tagged for starters.
And are the pyzor / razor / dcc checks performed on all messages ?
Yes, provided you installed them and aren't configured to skip such checks.
How do I know if these checks were done ?
Run a message through spamassassin -d to see it run it in debug mode.. you should see about 20 extra lines of debug output if razor is used.
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