Spam filter useless?

Set the filter to agressive, it scans the emails. However it is SpamAssassin based and some spam mailers are figuring ways around it between updates, so it has some holes, as does any solution.

the only spam filtering is NOT via white and black lists, that is just an option, it is not the only filter.
 
Stephen said:
the only spam filtering is NOT via white and black lists, that is just an option, it is not the only filter.
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Other than SpamAssassin settings, it does seem to be the only one under my direct control. I've made the aggressive settings as recommended and hopefully that doesn't cut out any important emails... but if there are other direct control options I would love to hear about them... as would others.

UPDATE: 27 spams in the last 19 hours. Not much of a decline for being an "aggressive" setting.
 
Hi,

Has there been any progress on getting the spam filters working again, I'm still only randomly getting X-Spam headers in my emails.

Thanks,
Andrew
 
I thought the issue had been fully resolved, I will see that it get sent to the developers to take a look at it this time.
 
I emailed the developers, they replied rather promptly. Their is a known bud that causes the spamd to stop running (the anti spam daemon) and therefore lets spam through without a scan. They had a fix released but pulled it back out after a few problems (note it was not installed here) and they are working hard to get it fixed up and re-release it.

So many of these issues should cease soon, once the new patch is released and installed.
 
Stephen said:
They had a fix released but pulled it back out after a few problems (note it was not installed here) and they are working hard to get it fixed up and re-release it.
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This would explain my recent discovery that black listing is having no effect in my case.
 
Something further to consider...

Look at the email information below and note the return-path address and other information as opposed to other information about where it may really have come from. Using a blacklist system will not stop spam of this type...

And SpamAssassin didn't catch it... in fact it didn't catch 6 of such in the last 6 hours... and I hate leaving my email program running all the time just so I can keep all of our mail account clean.

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Return-Path: <Nannie@msn.com>
Delivered-To: [DELETED BY ME]
Received: (qmail 7749 invoked by uid 399); 28 Jul 2004 06:17:24 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ppp237-154.pptp.mtu-net.ru) (81.195.237.154)
by mail.m****here.biz with SMTP; 28 Jul 2004 06:17:24 -0000
Received: from 61.74.0.150 by 63.209.158.6; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:08:40 +0400
Message-ID: <HDDWYMQGIRPXNEUREDERLV@msn.com>
From: "Carroll Wilkerson" <Nannie@msn.com>
Reply-To: "Carroll Wilkerson" <Nannie@msn.com>
To: [DELETED BY ME]
Subject: mesage subj.
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:02:40 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--90999935660818808"
X-Priority: 3
X-CS-IP: 92.118.61.248
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on cp.m****here.biz
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAD_CREDIT,NO_CREDIT_CHECK,
PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63
X-Spam-Level: ****
 
The following is very obviously not coming through MSN, and therefor blacklisting won't stop it.

This approach is one of the standards in modern spam proliferation. It is time for Jodo host to look more seriously at spam protection that doesn't allow this kind of server and customer resource waste.

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Return-Path: <amrylokadscjix@msn.com>
Delivered-To: [DELETED BY ME]
Received: (qmail 14395 invoked by uid 399); 28 Jul 2004 14:32:23 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO pool-151-198-114-251.mad.east.verizon.net) (151.198.114.251)
by mail.m****here.biz with SMTP; 28 Jul 2004 14:32:23 -0000
Received: from 138.80.33.228 by 151.198.114.251; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:20:14 -0100
Message-ID: <CNKCWKGQBMKLDAWEMTJQTPNUR@yahoo.com>
From: "Sandy Talley" <amrylokadscjix@msn.com>
Reply-To: "Sandy Talley" <amrylokadscjix@msn.com>
To: [DELETED BY ME]
Subject: Male Multi Orgazzsm Pill
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:24:14 -0300
X-Mailer: AOL 8.0 for Windows US sub 918
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--79630237361638625"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-IP:200.188.176.153
----79630237361638625
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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