SpamAssassin 2.0 - beware of old spamassassin.cf file!

Nick Phillips nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM
Sun Jan 27 11:08:13 GMT 2002


On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:32:58PM -0600, Michael Chaney wrote:

> I was thinking that it would make sense to use Vipul's Razor in
> mailscanner, and then not run the message through SA if it hits there.
> The razor is much quicker than SA, and hits on generally 50% of all
> spam that I get (my file with 354 spams had only 130 that it didn't
> recognize), which means that we could speed this up greatly by only
> calling SA for half the spam.

Problem being that apparently Vipul's Razor regularly flags, for example,
Debian Security Alerts as spam...

...so it's probably better off staying within the spamassassin scoring
framework.
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