On 8/4/2010 4:23 AM, Happy Chap 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.
>
> We're running a slightly old version of Spamassassin (v3.2.3) running on
> SuSE 10.3 but do run sa-update's regularly to pick up new rules (which,
> perhaps naively I thought was more important the upgrading Spamassassin
> itself).
>
> Has anyone got any advice on how to correctly identify these mails as spam?
>
> 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)?
>
> Any ideas/help would be very gratefully received as the users are now
> getting restless and, bayes training isn't really helping. Thanks.

You ARE manually training bayes (sa-learn) on these missed spams,
right?  That is probably the most useful thing you can do if you are
getting Bayes_00 on them.

-- 
Bowie

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