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Re: spamassassin


From: Daniel Staal <DStaal () usa net>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:46:33 -0500

--As of February 19, 2014 9:52:57 AM +0800, Randy Bush is alleged to have said:

in the last 3-4 days, a *massive* amount of spam is making it past
spamassassin to my users and to me.  see appended for example.  not
all has dkim.

clue?

--As for the rest, it is mine.

The spamassassin list has been tracking an issue where a new rule made it out of the testbox accidentally, which lowers scores on a lot of spam. It wasn't in the sample you provided, but the rule name is BAYES_999 - it catches mail that the bayes filter thinks is 99.9-100% sure to be spam. As it got promoted prematurely, it's showing with a score of 1.0. (The default.) It's probably a part of your problem.

A fix should be in the rules update today or tomorrow - or you can rescore it to the same as BAYES_99 (someplace in the 3 range by default, I believe). That's what used to catch that mail: it used to mean 99-100%, and now means 99-99.9%.

More info can be found in the mailing list archives for the spamassassin list.

Daniel T. Staal

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