Sorry for having sent the same email twice, but I was a victim of myself 
:) I thought the email never showed up in dspam-user list because I 
never received it. Then I searched the logs and I had a rule forbidding 
emails with the word viagra in the subject in simscan....

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:16:17 +0000
Carlo Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:

 >> Hello all.
 >>
 >Hello,


 >> I'm using dspam and I'm very happy with it, except for this new wave of
 >> mp3 / gif viagra spam.
 >>
 >> The mp3 spam emails had only the attachment, no subject and no body 
text.
 >> The gif spam emails that I'm seeing now have random pieces of english
 >> text (from books?) on the subject and body, and the attachment.
 >>
 >> dspam is proving very ineffective stopping these spams. Especially the
 >> gif ones.
 >>
 >> How are you all fighting and stopping these spams?
 >>
 >one way would be to use ClamAV to stop them. Do you use ClamAV?

Yes I do. But ClamAV doesn't recognize these emails as viruses.


 >> I'm thinking of adding a layer before dspam with spamassassin/pyzor, 
but
 >> I tried spampd yesterday and was not satisfied with it. Some emails 
took
 >> over 10 seconds to get scanned,
 >>
 >That is normal with SpamAssassin.

 >> even removing the dnsbl tests from
 >> spamhaus, are other emails took about 30 minutes or more to get
 >> delivered.
 >>
 >The DNSBL tests are probably not the reason to have a 30 minutes delay.

Yes, they're not. But as I did the test on a production server, I had to 
rollback to my previous configuration.
In test servers, under low/no volume, everything was working ok.


 >> I run busy ISP mail servers so I had to remove spampd and I'm
 >> using only dspam.
 >>
 >I run a cluster of mail servers in a ISP setup as well. My setup uses 
more then
 >just DSPAM. But I try to avoid anything that can not be clustered and 
I try to
 >avoid everything that uses just to much cpu/memory without being 
effective.

Since the building of these servers I tried to do everything always with 
that in mind. To be as much efficient as possible.
It's just that these evil viagras are really bugging me and I have to do 
something to get rid of them.

 >Might I ask you what MTA you are using? Do you really just run DSPAM 
without
 >any other additional tools?

I have 2 postfix servers with gps(greylisting) and policyd-spf-fs as 
policies, rbl and header checks in postfix, and dspam+clamav as a 
content_filter.

I'm sharing the dspam home via nfs, and using a remote mysql server for 
gps and dspam.

Yesterday I tried spampd, a perl application which is a transparent 
lmtp/smtp proxy that uses spamassassin to tag mail.
It didn't work too well, so I'm trying amavisd-new today.

Is there anything I can tune in dspam so that it would be more effective 
in recognizing these emails as spam? I'm using
'Algorithm graham burton' and 'Tokenizer osb'.

 >> Thanks for your time.
 >>
 >> Carlo Rodrigues
 >>
 >--
 >Kind Regards from Switzerland,
 >
 >Stevan Bajić



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