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! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

