[TriLUG] Re: Spamassassin "failing" as of late

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Mon Jan 23 12:38:47 EST 2006


Paul G. Szabady wrote:
> During the last week or so, it seems like spam is bypassing my
> spamassassin filters quite a bit.  I've double-checked my setup and all
> appears to be running as it should.  Has anyone noticed this or am I just
> an anomaly?

Perhaps.  One things I've noticed is that I have to police up any
false-negatives that get auto-learned as ham.  They poison SpamAssassins
bayesian filters and cause more spam to be down-scored.

You might consider restarting your basyes databases in SpamAssassin and
see what happens.

--[Lance]

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