Spamassassin, mailscanner 3, etc.

[Julian Field]

At 15:31 16/01/2002, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > At 02:22 16/01/2002, you wrote:
> > >I added get_hits () to the sendmail.pl and also uncommented the line to
> > >save to a queue for analysis (had to move it into the routine where
> > >$dfilename was getting set though).
> >
> > Ah! I had never seen any mention of get_hits() before. I have just tweaked
> > the code so that instead of saying
> >          X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin
> > it will now say
> >          X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (10 hits)
> > or whatever.
>
>Excellent! I've just started using spamassassin and was curious about the
>hits. Unfortunately so far I think the score from SpamAssassin is
>
>accurately tagged spam  1
>not-spam tagged         3
>spam not tagged         2
>
>I'll keep watching it...

I'm running with a "required_hits" of 10, which seems to strike quite a
good balance (no false positives, a few false negatives).

>Do I gather correctly from the archive that the way to adjust the
>spamassassin threshold for mailscanner is to alter root's spamassassin.cf?

Indeed. Or if you are using Exim and running as some other user, then their
".spamassassin.cf" file.
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