[TriLUG] Re: Spamassassin "failing" as of late

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Mon Jan 23 14:10:26 EST 2006


Paul G. Szabady wrote:
> During the last week or so, it seems like spam is bypassing my
> spamassassin filters quite a bit.  I've double-checked my setup and all
> appears to be running as it should.  Has anyone noticed this or am I just
> an anomaly?
> 
> Two systems, same issue:
>  - FC2, 2.6.10-1.771_FC2, spamassassin-2.64-2.1.legacy, sendmail-8.12.11-4.6
>  - CentOS 4.1 - 2.6.9-11.EL, spamassassin-3.0.1-0.EL4, sendmail-8.13.1-2

One more thing.  Pull out a couple of the spam messages that are getting
through and run them through 'spamassassin -t < spam.msg' and examine
the output for clues why they aren't getting caught.  If your bayes DBs
are messed up it will have a downscore because of being ham.

--[Lance]

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