Tom H wrote:
> Hi,
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> I was getting hit by a great deal of spam that only hits the BAYES_99
> rule, and maybe gets less than a point or so from elsewhere.
> But now I'm getting ones through that are basically only hitting the
> BAYES_99 and nothing else;
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> X-Spam-Score: 3.5 (***) BAYES_99
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> I tried to send the mail to this list to demonstrate the content but
> got bounced with 12.9 spam score.
>
> I'm running sa-update weekly, and rules_de_jour daily with a big set
> of rules, and I'm still not hitting loads of obvious spam.
> Particularly those with the title "Re:" + "good" and then a number
> appended to the end.
>
> The only thing I can think of at the moment is to reduce my
> requried_hits to 3.5 or increase the score for BAYES_99 to 5, but I
> would prefer not to do the latter as I like a default and
> automatically updated installation.
>
> I would be grateful for any ideas on this...
Sounds like the message contains a URI that is now listed in many of the
SURBL and URIBL lists.

 It may be that this got listed after you got the spam, but do you have
network tests enabled?




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