On 09/22/12 17:11, Daniel McDonald wrote:
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> On 9/22/12 3:31 PM, "James" <bjloc...@lockie.ca> wrote:
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>> Great thanks.
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>> I am lowering the required score to 3.
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> That is generally not a desirable practice.
It didn't help. :-(
I got spam with a low score.
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,
INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no
version=3.3.2
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>> If I still get spam, I will block everything and just use whitelisting.
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> I see that you have bayes enabled. You should train your bayes every now
> and again.
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> You may want to look at a few spams and write a rule just for them. For
> example, we received a spam asking for a loan of a small amount of money.
> It scored about 3.5. I wrote the following:
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> body __WORD_LOAN /\bloan\b/
> describe __WORD_LOAN Describes a loan
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> body __WORD_URGENT /\burgent/
> describe __WORD_URGENT Something is urgent or urgently needed
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> meta AE_SMALL_URGENT_LOAN __FRAUD_DBI && __WORD_LOAN && __WORD_URGENT
> && __REPLY_FREEMAIL
> describe AE_SMALL_URGENT_LOAN urgent loan for a small dollar figure to
> freemail user
> score AE_SMALL_URGENT_LOAN 2.3
Does anyone have a good rule for "To cancel your subscription", etc.
It seems a lot of spam has opt out links (but I never opted in).
None of friends have opt out links so it would be fine to block everything that
does.
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> It's not the most elegant rule, but that's the real power of spamassassin -
> custom rules to kill off the spam.
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