spamassassin (GTUBE is not marked as spam.)

[djdman2000]

okay... got spamassassin up and working with a procmail recipe and i can tell that it is working in the header... but, the GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) is not marked as spam.

message header:
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X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=8.0
tests=AWL,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT_PINE
version=2.44
X-Spam-Level:

XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X

spam assassin config file:
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required_hits 8
rewrite_subject 1
report_header 1
use_terse_report 1
defang_mime 0
report_safe 0
use_bayes 1
auto_learn 1
subject_tag [SPAM]

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

djdman2000

[registering]

It looks like your spamassasin "required hits" is too high, at least for that email (which I'm not familiar with). In the "X-Spam Status" you see it was marked as 0.3, but it must be 8.0 or higher to be seen as spam. You can either lower your required hits (probably not a good idea), or make sure that email is "truly" "fake" spam. :)

[pl1ght]

Did u send the gtube correctly? And not just copy and paste it? I always ttest by doing a mail whatever@asdf.net < gtube.txt and it marks scores a 1000 on my Xspam status.

[mdwatts]

I edited your subject to something a bit more informative as 'spamassassin fun' only tells us you are having a great time of using it.

[djdman2000]

pl1ght et. al,

I tried that... Below is the result from the header. Is spamassassin getting better at noticing that this is spam? Do I really need to make it more sensitive? Is that a good idea?

djdman.



X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=8.0
tests=MISSING_HEADERS,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,SUBJ_MISSI NG
version=2.44
X-Spam-Level: **

[pl1ght]

Your spam parameters must not be correct, as that GTUBE should be scoring 1000 with the defaults.

I run my Spamassassin at a score of 4.5 being spam, and it hasnt tagged anything yet that shouldnt have been.

the default 5 is normally enough tho. 8 is pretty high IMO and will let a ton of wouldbe spam through.