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A couple of days ago tons of spam started to make it past the filters. Has been working fine for years so not sure what happened.

An example of the spam score from a very obvious spam email.

-4.167
No, score=-4.167 tagged_above=-99 required=3 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DIET_1=0.001, FORGED_SPF_HELO=1, HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=0.377, MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.1, MIME_QP_LONG_LINE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI=-5, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L4=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_ABUSE_SURBL=1.25, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no

Any tips for doing a reset on the sub-system to kick it back into gear?

Thanks in advance.

Jim
Saturday, February 20 2021, 12:26 PM
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    Monday, February 22 2021, 11:25 AM - #Permalink
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    Cheers Nick,

    Not sure why that "RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI" check suddenly started scoring differently. Maybe I topped a daily limit or something - our domains here get hammered with spam <sigh>. I will rescore it for now and see if it improves any.

    Appreciate your response.

    Jim
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    Saturday, February 20 2021, 01:48 PM - #Permalink
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    I don't think there is much you can do if you haven't fiddles with the settings. Configs are in /etc/mail/spamassassin. You can google resetting the Bayes filter as I don't believe it is really being used, but there is not much there which would have got your score up to 3. RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI gave you -5 which is quite a strong HAM rating, and Bayes -1.9.
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