Hope someone on the board can help me.

Starting about 2 days ago, all kinds of spam started leaking through my various accounts. Up to that point, I had no problems at all. I'm using Outlook to download my emails, and it does a good job of filtering the junk. That's not the problem

Some time ago, I enabled Spam Assassin and have used it since. Frankly, it worked great.

So, I'm wondering if there have been some changes made, or did my copy just get "old" or forget its duty?? Or what?

Seriously, what can I do to bring back the Assassin to where he was? I must be getting over 50 Spams per HOUR!

Jim Cotton / Atlanta

I am on Camilla Server.  I am rather new to Lunar webhosting, as I just arrived in early September 2007, although I was hosted someplace else for about five years.   I set up Spam Assassin when I first got here - and just forgot about it.

Recently I have noticed a huge increase in spam, so I have been looking at the headers of incoming mail.  I was surprised to see that the typical spam assassin scores that I was use to seeing weren't there.  I had it set to 5 and moved it down to 4.5  .. but to me, from looking at the incoming mail headers, Spam Assassin doesn't seem to be scoring the mail anymore.

Here is what the  headers have been saying.

X-Spam-Status: No, score=
X-Spam-Score:
X-Spam-Bar:
X-Spam-Flag: NO

  No score!
 


Anyone else noticing this?   I guess I could write a help ticket, but thought maybe I would ask here first to see if there is something I could do on my own.

Thanks

~zoey

Thank you! - I made a help ticket and my spam assassin is now doing "it's thing" again.   

I've been dealing with this "no score from Spam Assassin" problem on "delta.lunarpages.com" for a while. I opened a helpdesk ticket a while ago and have been going back & forth since, but they haven't really fixed anything. They've restarted SA on the server several times and I don't think it did much if anything--within a couple of days I was getting unscored email. It's not an insignificant number (Rx five in a two hour period), and since it's unscored and not always from the same sender there's not much I do to block it (e.g. changing thresholds or SA flag values).

I'm getting email in three groups, showing that SA is working well in a lot of cases, scoring & blocking a lot of real spam and very little non-spam. I've worked with helpdesk by creating dummy accounts showing that "test spam" gets scored and rejected in the cases we've tried. They seem to have taken the position that since most spam is getting blocked and that "some spam will leak thru a spam filter" that the *unscored* spam isn't a big deal. But I'm thinking that either there's a problem (config, obsolete version) with Spam Assassin or that some spammers have figured a way around it. It is interesting that the X-Spam headers *do* get inserted in the emails but no score is added.

I can keep harping on helpdesk for my ticket (ODNL4704NHY1) but it doesn't seem to be doing any good. Obviously at least *one* other person has had the problem and had it corrected (is there a ticket # I can reference for this?). Anybody else seeing this?


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Unscored

X-Spam-Status: No, score=
X-Spam-Score:
X-Spam-Bar:
X-Spam-Flag: NO


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Scored low (non-spam or spam that has scored low)

X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4
X-Spam-Score: 14
X-Spam-Bar: +
X-Spam-Flag: NO

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0
X-Spam-Score: -39
X-Spam-Bar: ----
X-Spam-Flag: NO

X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5
X-Spam-Score: 25
X-Spam-Bar: ++
X-Spam-Flag: NO

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Scored high (all real spam so far...)

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=10.9
X-Spam-Score: 109
X-Spam-Bar: ++++++++++
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "delta.lunarpages.com", has
     identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
     has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
     similar future email. If you have any questions, see
     the administrator of that system for details.
     Content preview: Anne Hathaway will die to spend a night in your bed with you
     http://www.tallwaif.com/ <http://www.tallwaif.com/> Anne Hathaway will die
     to spend a night in your bed with you http://www.tallwaif.com/ [...]
     Content analysis details: (10.9 points, 5.0 required)
     pts rule name description
     ---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
     3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
     [score: 0.9996]
     0.0 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
     0.9 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address
     [84.173.5.224 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
     0.9 RCVD_IN_PBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus PBL
     [84.173.5.224 listed in zen.spamhaus.org]
     0.7 SPF_FAIL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (fail)
     [SPF failed: Please see http://www.openspf.org/Why?s=mfrom;id=aisrevah1990%4013.51051.jp;ip=84.173.5.224;r=delta.lunarpages.com]
     2.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist
     [URIs: tallwaif.com]
     1.5 URIBL_JP_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the JP SURBL blocklist
     [URIs: tallwaif.com]
     0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
     1.5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist
     [URIs: tallwaif.com]
X-Spam-Flag: YES
Subject: ***SPAM*** Heat up your nights