[ale] OT : SpamAssassin becoming inefective

[Nathan J. Underwood]

That's actually the version (2.63) that I'm using.  My setup is pretty 
much an out of the box setup (I've added some blacklist / whitelists, 
and just recently cranked the required score down to 4.7).  The weird 
thing is, everything was working great until about 2 weeks ago (the VAST 
majority of spam was getting caught).  Now, the ones that are making it 
through are scoring really low, around 1 or 2 points.

Jason Day wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:29:32PM -0500, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> 
>>Just curious to know if anyone else that is using SpamAssasin is 
>>starting to see more and more spam beating it?  I have been using it for 
>>about a year, and had been seeing 5-10 SPAM messages per day beating 
>>SpamAssassin with the default setting (score of 5).  In the last 2 weeks 
>>or so, though, I'm getting 30-80 through, and have even dropped the 
>>score down to 4.7.  Just curious to see if anyone else had been seeing 
>>this too?
> 
> 
> What version of SA are you using?  The latest version is 2.63.  Older
> versions will let more spam through.  I've also tweaked the rules some
> from the defaults.  Depending on the type of mail you get, you might try
> that too.  For instance, if I get a message that contains only HTML,
> it's a pretty sure bet that it's spam, so I've given it a higher score.
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