> On 26 Jan 2021, at 17:04, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > >> running version 3.42. > > Presumably you meant 3.4.2... > > Unless that's a distro-patched variant, such as the ones RH and Debian > produce, you should update to 3.4.4. There are significant security, > performance, bugfix, and functionality improvements in the 2 latest > "minor" releases, as their will be in the soon-to-come 3.4.5, which > should be the terminal release for the 3.4 branch. > . . . > > Did the lint actually fail? >
No. I am a bit puzzled by what Benny Pedersen suggested, running lint without local.cf. Never tried it, or read anything, but presume the inference is it should have failed? > The many "__E_LIKE_LETTER" and "__LOWER_E" hits are normal. Those > subrules are part of the MIXED_ES metarule that was designed to catch a > particular family of bogus extortion spams (the ones claiming to have > recorded the victim consuming pornography and asking for ransom in > cryptocurrency.) The target spams typically try to avoid Bayes by using > a mix of Unicode characters that look like ASCII characters, notably > variations on lower case 'e'. MIXED_ES has been scoring well in RuleQA > for a surprisingly long time, although it MAY carry some risk that we > miss because our submissions don't include a lot of non-English ham. Thanks for helping me get the gist of that. > It is possible that spamd and the spamassassin script are running as > different users and that means that it is possible that they are using > different per-user rules. I'll check that, should not be the case, but, never know what I might have hacked and forgotten. In any case, the problem is resolved, for now, all (I think) operator malfunction. Don't "multi task" as well these days. joe a. > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire
