Hi,
I am pretty new to SpamAssassin, so I apologize, if this has been
posted in the past.
I have SA integrated in Communigate Pro with CGPSA, and it has
already started
to filter out a lot of spam messages right out of the box. However, I
am still
a bit unsure about how to train it.
I get a lot of spam messages like that, which SA does not recognize
as spam.
(this one, e..g, got score 0.0)
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Here I wanted to add the original mail, but when I did so, my posting
was
rejected from the list server with 552 spam score (19.7) exceeded
threshold.
So this is on the one hand good news, since I now know, that SA can be
trained to catch it, but how can I tell you how this spam message looks
like. I'll try to describe:
The first part contains 8 lines, holding the names of the pills that
help
male human beings ... ;-) - you know?
Then follows a line with " all 50 % off" and an URL where to order,
and this is followed by a paragraph with pretty "normal" text.
I try to keep this text here, since I assume this should not trigger the
score anyhow.
From the original mail:
"If ever you are passing my way, said Bilbo, dont wait to knock!
Tea is at four; but any of you are welcome at any time!
Then he turned away.
The elf-host was on the march;. and if it was sadly lessened, yet
many were glad, for now the northern world would be merrier for many a
long day. The dragon was dead, and the goblins overthrown, and their"
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I am now wondering, whether there is even a chance for SA to catch
this, if I
train this message, or whether training messages like this is not
even a good
idea, because the "normal text" at the end would confuse the bayesian
corpus
more than it would help. As I mentioned above, it seems that it can
be trained,
but how? I trained already a lot of messages like that with sa-
train, but
the score is still 0.0.
Thanks for any hint you can provide how to best deal with this kind
of messages.
thanks
Christoph Reichenberger
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Christoph Reichenberger - ergonis software gmbh
