On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 01:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Happy Chap <s...@happychap.plus.com> wrote:
> > Hi, > > We started getting (over the last 2 months say) lots of spam, which > Spamassassin isn't picking up as spam. Analysing these, they all seem > to be of the same type where many paragraphs of random text are > "hidden" inside an HTML comment (either contained in <!-- --> or > inbetween /* and */ "tags"). > > Because of this "hidden" text, these messages are triggering BAYES_00 > which, I think, is the major influence on them not being correctly > identified by Spamassassin as spam. It's unlikely that that could push the BAYES RESULT down to BAYES_00 unless there is uncorrected mistraining. > Do I just need to upgrade to Spamassassin 3.3.0 (I'm assuming that > this probably won't make much difference because I'm already using > the latest rule sets thanks to sa-update)? I don't think the 3.2.x rules get updated much. Perhaps this is leading to false autotraining in BAYES.