[Mimedefang] How to trap this spam

Bill Maidment bill.maidment at elgas.com.au
Tue Dec 30 19:49:35 EST 2003


Nels Lindquist wrote:

>On 31 Dec 2003 at 9:14, Bill Maidment wrote:
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>>We've been getting a lot of spam getting through our defences
>>(mimedefang 2.39 SpamAssassin 2.70-cvs Razor2) which looks like the
>>attached.
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>Do you have some specific reason to be running a development version 
>of SA?  From what I've seen on the SA-Talk list, the developers 
>generally recommend against that.
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Just trying out the new stuff to see if it helped. We were getting these 
with 2.61 as well.

>Are you running Bayes and RBLs?  The only "regular" tests your 
>message triggered for me were HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_06 and HTML_MESSAGE, 
>for a score of 1.5. However, BAYES_99 and several RBL tests push it 
>to 12.4 with my SA 2.61 setup.
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Bayes was installed, but only yesterday I discovered it wasn't running 
because of a missing perl module (no error messages). It will take a few 
weeks for Bayes to learn. RBLs are next to try out.

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>Nels Lindquist <*>
>Information Systems Manager
>Morningstar Air Express Inc.
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