[Mimedefang] SA suddenly not catching spam

Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr gwen at reptiles.org
Thu Mar 25 11:56:01 EST 2004


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Fred wrote:
> > I'm testing a mimedefang2.39/spamassassin2.63 combnation for catching
> > spam, which was working nicely last week - catching the vast majority
> > of spam, and otherwise behaving as desired.
> >
> > Now, I'm suddenly getting results like 11 out of 207 messages which are
> > clearly spam[0] being caught.
>
> Spammers are smart and catch on to the default rules in SpamAssassin.  I am
> part of a group who creates rules for SpamAssassin like Antivirus vendors
> (daily updates).  The dev's of SpamAssassin have a hard time getting
> releases out fast enough.  With the changes coming for 3.0, it won't take as
> long to get updates out.  You can always check out our rules here:

As it turns out, the problem was entirely self-induced *blush*.  The
mechanism that I was using to feed spam into the system was 'mail',
and changing over to using sendmail has, uh... solved the problem ;>

cheers!
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