On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote:
I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2).
I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge
amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the
subject line.... that are getting low scores (averaging about 15 uncaught
spams per hour per user inbox). It's still catching some spam. So I assume
it just a scoring issue.
I tried running sa-update. It said no updates were available. I'm fairly
certain that SA is better at recognizing spam that it is currently doing on
my system. Is there something else I need to do in order to get it to begin
recognizing obvious spam? Hopefully 15 uncaught spams per hour is not
considered the acceptable norm.
Be aware that Bayes scoring doesn't kick in until you've actually
provided some training to allow it to recognize your particular email
traffic.
There are also potential DNS issues that may contribute. In addition to
describing your environment, perhaps you could post the X-Spam-Status
header from a couple of the low-scoring spams.
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