Greetings Cpanel,
I have searched a lot for this and I cannot seem to select a great SpamAssassin Score settings that will minimize spam and will not detect real emails as spam. There are thousands upon thousands of filtering settings, and I have been playing around with them for hours and testing and would love your input.
I am currently using:
Things I have done to check:
i.stack.imgur.com/3SOjn.png
Sample Header of Obvious spam that was never caught: I used Emkei's Fake Mailer (For some odd reason, this never gets flagged by SPF_FAIL)
I have searched a lot for this and I cannot seem to select a great SpamAssassin Score settings that will minimize spam and will not detect real emails as spam. There are thousands upon thousands of filtering settings, and I have been playing around with them for hours and testing and would love your input.
I am currently using:
- Latest WHM/Cpanel on Centos (All up-to-date).
- Latest SpamAssassin updated.
Things I have done to check:
- Using global spamassassin
- Redirected all "Spam Marked" emails to a specific email example "[email protected]***.com"
i.stack.imgur.com/3SOjn.png
Sample Header of Obvious spam that was never caught: I used Emkei's Fake Mailer (For some odd reason, this never gets flagged by SPF_FAIL)
Code:
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from host.mycompanyhiddenemail.org
by host.mycompanyhiddenemail.org with LMTP id 4Ig3HmpwL1tdCgAAN8oz4w
for <[email protected]>; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:20:26 -0400
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Envelope-to: [email protected]
Delivery-date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:20:26 -0400
Received: by host.mycompanyhiddenemail.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256)
(Exim 4.91)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1fX289-0000ey-T8
for [email protected]; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:20:26 -0400
Received: by emkei.cz (Postfix, from userid 33)
id DAB47D5FFF; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:19:42 +0200 (CEST)
To: [email protected]
Subject: FAKE EMAIL
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
Errors-To: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:19:42 +0200 (CEST)
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8
X-Spam-Score: 28
X-Spam-Bar: ++
X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "host.mycompanyhiddenemail.org",
has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original
message has been attached to this so you can view it or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
root\@localhost for details.
Content preview: FAKE EMAIL [...]
Content analysis details: (2.8 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
1.6 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider
(fake[at]gmail.com)
0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is
CUSTOM_MED
-0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP
1.2 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-From-Rewrite: unmodified, no actual sender determined from check mail permissions
X-EsetId: 37303A29C360E76D6D7464
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