[Gllug] SpamAssassin falling behind

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, September 1, 2006 11:31 am, John Winters wrote:
> When I first installed SpamAssassin it seemed to be pretty good at picking
> up all my spam without any false positives.  As time has gone on though it
> seems to have fallen behind.  I now get a significant percentage of spam
> slipping under SA's guard (especially stock tips).
>
> Thunderbird is shit-hot and picks up everything, AFAICS pretty much
> infallibly, but SA seems to have developed mould or something.
>
> Is there anything I need to do to SA on a regular basis to keep it up to
> speed?
>
>
I haven't got many compaliants about SA though I find that if you get
deluged with a lot of spams that are first of all marked as ham they get
on the AWL and even after you've trained the Bayesian filter they can get
through unless you adjust the target score down or boost BAYES_99 so it
kills off the AWL factor.

Given that so many of the spams I do get have already passed through
demon's own filter, it's clear that no solution is going to kill all of it
- ther's just too much out there.

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