low scoring spam is a problem

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InMotionFans
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why are the spam filters working so poorly? I have a ton of emails generated by compromised websites hitting me daily and they all score below 1, meanwhile HAM identifies them as possible spam. case in point.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Medicare Supplement quotes are ready From: "Medicare Secrets" Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=Part.142.3592.1416335081" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 X-Spam-Score: -10 X-Spam-Bar: - X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "biz130.inmotionhosting.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 root\@localhost for details. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that little gem scores a -10, really? -10?? and to make it worse emails from actual people are being blocked simply because they have a historically spammy domain in their address, and for NO OTHER REASON. Also 9 times out of 10 the URIBL queries are being blocked because you guys are overusing the free services. But all that aside why is spam assassin unable to recognize spam these days?, that's the root of the issue
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In this case, Spamassassin is actually what added the X-Ham-Report header and determined that the mail is spam. The negative value that you are seeing in these is only using on the server for outgoing mail, so it is not filtered at all based on those headers. The reasoning why this was delivered to your inbox was simply because you do not have the spam box set up within SpamAssassin. If you go into your SpamAssassin menu in cPanel, you will see a button that says Enable spam box. If were enabled that the time that this message were delivered, it would have been sent there instead of your inbox. Enabling this will greatly reduce the amount of spam you receive as without it, SpamAssassin simply adds the headers and continues the message to your inbox.