Can you pastebin some sample messages + headers ? -- Jeremy McSpadden Flux Labs, Inc http://www.fluxlabs.net <http://www.fluxlabs.net/> Endless Solutions Office : 850-588-4626 Cell : 850-890-2543 Fax : 850-254-2955
On 2/18/12 6:55 PM, "neon_overload" <neon...@neonjs.com> wrote: > >I'm convinced that spammers are using me as a guinea pig. > >I'm getting hit pretty hard by just a few determined spammers at the >moment >who seem to vary their spam signature every day or so (they sent out >through >thousands of free accounts at free email providers, so can't use client >DNSBL). But every now and again, I'll get a spam from them that follows >pretty much the same pattern as everything else, except that the vital >ingredient - the link to their spam site or any mention of what they are >promoting - is not there. Just the formatting and the random words. And >these mails get right through my spam filter. > >It's as if they are just sending out a test run when they come up with a >new >pattern, to see if it increases their bounce rate or something. > >BAYES_99 often hits on them, but I don't want to reject email just because >it hits BAYES_99. The thing is, it's difficult to classify these emails >even manually as spam or not spam, so it'd be hard to come up with rules >to >filter them. They are once-off, so they're not "bulk" per se - and they >are >not promoting the spammer - they are just random words. But they are, of >course, still spam to me because they are noise I didn't request. >-- >View this message in context: >http://old.nabble.com/Spam-messages-with-no-payload-tp33350242p33350242.ht >ml >Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
