An updated version of SA was released earlier today. There are some bug fixes plus the addition of the SURBL JP DNSBL Download it from your local mirror Thing … [Read more...] about SpamAssassin 3.0.4 released
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New URI blacklists
URIBL has recently launched with four new blacklists of URIs. The criteria are similar as those used by SURBL. There are four lists currently available: * black.uribl.com - Which is an aggresive list of known spammers. With a goal of zero False Positives. * grey.uribl.com - Which lists people who spam and have legitimate uses. This will cause False Positives for some depending … [Read more...] about New URI blacklists
“German” spam updated ruleset
Exit0 have a modified version of Raymond's spam assassin ruleset that will catch the bounces: German spam … [Read more...] about “German” spam updated ruleset
New “political” spam
There's a new wave of political spam hitting mailservers across Europe and presumably the globe. Most of it seems to be in German, though some subject lines in English have been reported. It looks like they are being sent by zombie PCs. This is very similar to the nazi spam which was spotted about 14 months ago. Update: Raymond has released an SA ruleset to block most of this … [Read more...] about New “political” spam
MailScanner – spam.assassin.prefs.conf
If you are upgrading from an older install be very careful with the spam.assassin.prefs.conf, as the latest version that ships with MS has a number of changes in it that can cause issues with your Bayes' settings ie. location of the files With older installs you may have place the files in: /var/spool/spamassassin you would have set the path to bayes to … [Read more...] about MailScanner – spam.assassin.prefs.conf