Q: Is there anything better than spamassassin?
I'm not sure if the spammers are getting better at their job, but Spamassassin just doesn't seem to do it anymore. Even set down to 3, a lot gets through. I'm testing today at 2, hoping real messages don't get caught.
Been using spam trainer and have fed the junk account multi-thousands of messages over a year, but is seems not to do anything.
I rarely put anything in the notjunk account, but the count in the spam trainer email report keeps going up for the "ham" (as well as the "spam"). Is it required to put plain "good" messages in there? I thought you were supposed to put only good messages mistakenly tagged as spam in there.
I'll get a message that got through with this in the header as it should be:
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 2.793
X-Spam-Level: **
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.793 tagged_above=2 required=3 tests=[BAYES_80=2, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001]
But some messages (good and spam) don't contain the X-Spam entries in the header at all. Anybody know why?
So is there anything else (free or paid) I can add to the server to do a better job than what Spamassassin and spam trainer are doing? Or do I need to change something about what I'm using?
Using latest El Capitan and Server.
Thanks very much!
Mac mini, OS X Server
Posted on Aug 9, 2016 4:50 PM