[Gllug] SpamAssassin falling behind

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:31:01AM +0100, 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?
> 
> The platform is Debian Sarge, fully patched up to date.

Have you had a look at the headers to see what spamassassin 
is scoring ? 

Recently a lot of spam has been sent to foul up filter and 
try to add addresses to auto-whitelists.

Once you have identified spam use 'spamassassin -R' to remove 
address from the auto-whitelist and 'sa-learn --spam' and train 
the Bayesian filter. Of course, this is easier with a command 
line program, but you could dump all spam into an mbox and then 
regularly run the above programs with the '--mbox' option.


-- 
#---------------------------------------------------------#
|    John Edwards   Email: john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk    |
#---------------------------------------------------------#
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug