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January 4, 2004

When I Ask is My Spam Being Caught...

All I have to do is look at the procmail log that I keep in my home directory which captures all of the subject lines of messages being processed by SpamAssassin and then filtered for scores of less than 8 via procmail to see what I'm missing...

Subject: [SPAM:22.44] Fwd: Purchase Your V|@gra, Valï(u)m, X(a)n@x.Diet Pills 
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        6110
From misty.parkszw@world-net.sct.fr Sun Jan  4 21:07:45 2004
 Subject: [SPAM:14.39] hi
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4846
From 53xugbqvcj@netzero.com Sun Jan  4 21:10:44 2004
 Subject: [SPAM:26.31] 7 new amateur Jess Simpson flicks
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        7034
From r_nunezmq@cdo.philcom.com.ph Sun Jan  4 21:13:16 2004
 Subject: [SPAM:13.24] =?ISO-8859-1?b?aGk=?=
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4647
From mmje3mdy@codechina.com.cn Sun Jan  4 21:13:22 2004
 Subject: [SPAM:15.66] 0.15Ôª´ò¹úÄÚ³¤Í¾£¨×ù»ú¡¢ÊÖ»ú£©0.3Ôª´òµ½ÃÀ¹úºÍ¼ÓÄôó
  Folder: /dev/null                                                       12746
From go813dl@snowblowing.com Sun Jan  4 21:15:40 2004
 Subject: [SPAM:29.22] OK                                                      
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        6010

The flow of spam is definitely going down at least temporarily because of CAN-SPAM. In the last week, I've only had procmail bounce 3,000 messages and probably deleted about 500 to 750 that local spam filtering caught after SpamAssassin.

Posted by Glennf at January 4, 2004 9:27 PM

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