Spam Is Being Allowed Through Since Upgrade

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Good evening everyone. I have a unique issue that I'm noticing and wanted to get feedback from everyone. Back in January I upgraded our primary hosting server to a new CentOS version and migrated all data across. The hosting for my own business website is stored on there as well and I'm noticing that Outlook is collecting a ton of spam in my junk folder. None of it has the modified subject of ** SPAM** so I did some investigating.

It appears in the headers that all spam (and I have verified, it's clearly spam from the phishing links to porn), are showing a negative score after being processed. Here is a sample header where an email of nothing but URL links indicates it has a -26 SpamAssassin score. Am I missing something here, or can I do something to solve this issue? None of my customers have complained about it, so I want to get ahead of the curve with this one.

I appreciate any help anyone can give.


Code:
X-Eon-Alias-Sig: AQEEGuRetveUsFBlZQEAAAAB,5f8634377a72fad91a1c2f6b653f63bc
X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.216,18.0.676
 definitions=2020-05-09_07:2020-05-08,2020-05-09 signatures=0
X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0
 suspectscore=68 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1034
 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=626 adultscore=0
 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-2002250000
 definitions=main-2005090161
Forward-Confirmed-ReverseDNS: Reverse and forward lookup success on 216.200.145.37, -10 Spam score
SPFCheck: Server passes SPF test, -30 Spam score
X-Spam-Score: 1.4 (+)
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "XXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX-hosting.com",
 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
 the administrator of that system for details.
 
 Content preview: 
 
 Content analysis details:   (1.4 points, 7.5 required)
 
  pts rule name              description
 ---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
  0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED          ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was
                             blocked.  See
                             http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block
                              for more information.
                             [URIs: succeedforevercommunity.org]
 -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW      RBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/,
                             low trust
                             [216.200.145.37 listed in list.dnswl.org]
 -1.9 BAYES_00               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1%
                             [score: 0.0000]
  0.2 HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS From and EnvelopeFrom 2nd level
                             mail domains are different
 -0.0 SPF_PASS               SPF: sender matches SPF record
  0.0 SPF_HELO_NONE          SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record
  2.1 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12     BODY: HTML: images with 800-1200 bytes of
                             words
  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
  0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY         BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
  1.2 URIBL_ABUSE_SURBL      Contains an URL listed in the ABUSE SURBL
                             blocklist
                             [URIs: succeedforevercommunity.org]
 -0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2      RBL: Average reputation (+2)
                             [216.200.145.37 listed in wl.mailspike.net]
  0.0 HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_2  HTML is very short with a linked image
  0.4 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG  HTML-only message, but there is no HTML
                             tag
SpamTally: Final spam score: -26
 
Are the spam settings set in the user level? You have to make sure they are set there for it to actually filter. If you or any of you customers don’t turn it on in the user account they will get spam. I assume you installed all of the spam items in custom build as well.
 
Brent - Thanks for the reply. I do have SpamAssassin enabled at my admin>User level with the same settings I've always had. Also SpamBlocker is enabled in the Exim config as well. Same with my users.
 
You also have Easy Spam Fighter and Blockcracking installed?

Next to that, it could also be fresh spam. It happens more often nowadays that spammers register a domain, provide it with spf and dkim records and then according to those checks all is fine.
The dnswl is already giving low trust so it could be in spamlist soon. I presume you have the latest exim.conf (configuration so not exim itself) file running.

You could also report the spam to Spamcop and it will be in there lists soon as there will be more complaints.
 
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