SPAM and procmail

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:37, Chris wrote:
> >
> > You're likely to see more of this.  It's an attempt to bypass bayesian
> > style mail filters.  I'm not using one yet, so I don't know how
> > successful this tactic is.  Irregardless, I'm still of the opinion that
> > spammers are lower life forms than even SCO executives.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, the Bayesian filters don't filter these out too successfully....
> 

I thought that too. It turned out that I didn't have the perl module
Net::DNS installed on my machine which allows RBL checks to happen. Once
I installed Net::DNS, SA started feeding those type of messages to the
Bayesian filter and those messages are now being scored high by the
Bayesian filter in addition to the RBL checks. I'll send a sample
message once I have some more spam (I just cleaned out my spam folder).