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