is this possible?

[Julian Field]

At 14:09 05/02/2002, you wrote:
>ok, one last thing im not sure about..
>
>Im currently running mailscanner(latest version) and latest 2.0+ code of
>spamassassin. Im not sure if i have something configured wronge. Basically i
>have /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs which has one thing defined (required
>hits) and i have that set to 7. Then in etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf i
>have a full blown spamassassin.cf file (the one from the spamassassin FAQ)
>and it seems
>to tag ALOT of mail, especially from mailing lists as spam. Was wondering
>if im doing something wronge and if anyone else is running similar to how i
>am.

Check (using an "ls -alu") to ensure that the root prefs file is actually
being read. It should be read every time MailScanner restarts (every 4
hours by default). I've had problems with SA ignoring its user_prefs and
configuration files sometimes.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:48 AM
>Subject: Re: is this possible?
>
>
> > At 13:29 05/02/2002, you wrote:
> > >to make any mail going to a certain user not tag anything as spam? She is
> > >persistant is accusing our software of being cheap and not working when
>shes
> > >really about the only one having problems. Although it does tag alot of
> > >peoples mailing list mail as spam, shes the only one complaining.
> >
> > Increase the SpamAssassin required_hits value to about 9 and I've found
> > this problem goes away.
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ