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Epic amounts of spam

Is the SpamAssassin problem fixed? Because I don't think it is.

Ever since the "problem" I have been been getting about 10ish spams a day landing in my inbox and not being caught by the filter.

I toss them all into SpamCop to see where they're from and they're ALL from burst.net. (Though they all have faked From: addresses.)

Here are the X-Spam headers from just the most recent one:

Code:

X-Spam-score: 3.6

X-Spam-hits: BAYES_99 3.5, BAYES_999 0.2, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.001, LANGUAGES en,

  BAYES_USED user, SA_VERSION 3.3.2

X-Spam-source: IP='184.22.135.203', Host='carmelpartners.tawfire.com', Country='US',

  FromHeader='com', MailFrom='com'

X-Spam-charsets: plain='us-ascii'

They never score more than 4.0, though they always trigger BAYES_99.

Please save me from the never-ending deluge of crappy spam!

UPDATE:

To pre-emptively answer the question, yes, I am using the "User" spam database, and not global, and I'm marking all these spams as spam in Fastmail as well as sending them to SpamCop.

The problem appears to have been with the BAYES_999 rule.

http://emaildiscussions.com/showpost...6&postcount=10

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list.../183590#183590

FM have changed their settings so I would assume the issue is fixed.

If all of your spam is coming from one place, could you not set up a custom rule to discard or at least filter them?

I doubt it's anything to do with BAYES_999, Fastmail rescored that pretty quickly and subsequently Spamassassin has redefined it so it's additional to BAYES_99 - see the above example.

If your database is well trained and BAYES isn't misclassifying ham, I'd set-up a rule to filter the higher BAYES results into the spam folder.