Re: My spamassassin rules

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On my system, a message needs a score of 5 or higher to be considered spam
... any message with a score of 10 or higher gets automatically discarded.

Makes sense.

Based on the convoluted headers and content I've seen that gmail
flags as spam, it seems to me that spammers work extremely hard to
overcome anything that spamassassin rules can catch.

Actually, true spammers are loosing the battle against spamassassin (at
least in my case) in a major way. I get very little true spam.

So, you don't get the ads for cia1is, cialliss, vigra, vieagra, or any of
the thousands of other variations? And what about the ones with no words
that trigger SA points, but link to other nefarious sites? Certainly, you
haven't tagged all of the thousands of ISP's that deliver spam, have you?

The rules I've added recently have more to do with spam that comes from
quasi-legitimate vendors that are spamming me. Those are the last handful
of rules that start RECVD_. I'm marking some ISP's as spam sources.

FWIW: Your message was not actually delivered to me ... as it contained so
many of the 'hot' words that the spam score was 12 ... which caused my
system to (incorrectly) discard it. Thanks for pointing out a weakness in
my filtering scheme. :)

So, how did you get my message then, if it was discarded?

- Dan