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Offline jeffgo

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Second Assassin?
« on: February 02, 2010, 07:40:09 AM »
I just noticed that beginning sometime between 7:44am and 8:27am (Pacific Time) on Friday January 22nd, all messages on mailb11 have had two SpamAssassin tags (ISpamAssassin and SpamAssassin), both of which are adding to the spam weight.  The scores for each are always different.  Sometimes ISpamAssassin has a higher score, and sometimes SpamAssassin has a higher score.  But both scores are added to the total spam weight which has tended to cause some messages to be bumped to a higher spam level than they normally would be.

Here's an example of one that definitely is spam, with a very hight score, but is shown here to illustrate the double tag (and score).


  Return-Path: <seeablegz@vignette.com>
  Received: from g18001 (auh-b113345.alshamil.net.ae [83.110.71.137]) by mailb11.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP;
     Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:13:08 -0700
  Received: (qmail 5747 by uid 747); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:08:55 -0400
  From: "Viagra&Cialis Sample" <seeableGz@vignette.com>
  To: <xxx@xxxx.xxx>
  Subject: [SPAM HIGH] Cheapest Viagra and Cialis - free!
  Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:59:58 -0400
  Message-ID: <000801caa433$5c9c1260$15d43720$@com>
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01CAA433.5C9C1260"
  X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0
  Thread-Index: Acjtd8CEpe3T7jOEIRKP/h9US2GAWQ==
  Content-Language: en-us
  X-SmarterMail-Spam: Commtouch 30 [value: Confirmed], ISpamAssassin 20 [raw: 12], SpamAssassin 23 [raw: 11], SPF_None, DK_None, DKIM_None, Barracuda BRBL, SpamCop
  X-CTCH-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4B683314.00B4,ss=4,pt=83048,fgs=12
  X-SmarterMail-TotalSpamWeight: 88


Is the second assassin a permanent feature?  (Grassy knoll jokes and analogies are staying in my head and not making it to this posting.)

-Jeff

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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 09:54:17 AM »
And now, some time this morning (February 2nd) between 7:46am and 8:18am (PT), both SA tags have disappeared, so it appears that something is in the works. . .

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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 10:50:28 AM »
This has been going on for several weeks.  I sent support a message regarding this and after several email messages was told that this is normal on this mail server.  Somehow I didn't feel confident that support had checked it out.

Steve

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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 12:00:56 PM »
We are looking into this, not sure why this mail server was synced with different settings then the others but this afternoon we are working on ensuring all settings across all mail servers are syncing correctly.
Ryan Bishop
VP of Server Operations and Support
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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 12:12:24 PM »
Ryan,

I'm on MailB11 which was the SmarterMail beta server and I believe Jeff is also, if that makes a difference.

Was trying to look in the control center for the previous ticket I sent support on this issue.  Is the ticket history something that was done away with or what am I missing?

Steve

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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 11:44:47 AM »
Anything new of what is happening with ISpamAssassin and Spam Assassin on MailB11?
Both are still turned off which is resulting in loads of spam getting through.

Steve

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Re: Second Assassin?
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2010, 12:34:55 PM »
WHOA!!!!!  It looks like ISpamAssassin was turned on again this morning somewhere around 7:00 AM on MailB11.
Great news!!!   ;D  ;D

Steve