[ale] Intelligent Spammers

[KingBahamut]

I would aggree, time to tweak.


On 10/25/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
> Lately spamassasin has been failing.  I think it is because some of
> these spammers are getting very creative.  Some way they know what I do
> and send subject lines with the words that are technical.  My guess is
> that they harvest an address from a mailing list.  Look at the archives
> and harvest words from the subject list.  Use those words to compose a
> subject that makes no sense but will pass the test.  I'm getting many
> "Serious Letter.  You have to read".  So many to the point I may tell
> procmail to send all emails with the subject "*You have to read*" to the
> bit bucket.  It might be time to tune spamassassin?
>
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