{SPAM?} spamassassin required hits adjustment.

[Julian Field]

At 21:54 25/06/2002, you wrote:
>Thanks for the "proof read" Julian.

No worries.

>I've got bigger problems.  SA suddenly started rating most of my mail at 255
>(including all mail from this list).  It also appears to be called twice
>consecutively

Eek. Never seen that one before. What SA are you running? They have
produced a 2.31 in the past few days, which seems to be working okay for
me. 255 hits implies the return code from SA could have been negative (it's
shifted right 8 times). Test SA thoroughly with the manual "spamassassin"
script in their distribution.


><snip>
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (255 hits)
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (255 hits)
><snip>
>
>I turned off SA for now.  I will investigate further tomorrow.
>
> > If someone feels like writing it...
>
>Ok, fair enough.  I've got a long way to go before I can pitch in, but its a
>personal goal.
>
>Thanks again
>
>Scott Hancock
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:18 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: {SPAM?} spamassassin required hits adjustment.
> >
> >
> > At 21:18 25/06/2002, you wrote:
> > >Previous posts stated that to adjust the hit rating for
> > spamassasin with
> > >mailscanner, one should edit the /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs file
> > >
> > >This file on my system (debian 2.4.18, ms 3.13.2-2, SA 2.20)
> > has one line.
> > >
> > >required_hits 10
> > >
> > >Is this correct?  I was hoping to find an example of this
> > file somewhere.
> > >All of the pointers to such a file that I've found have been
> > dead ends.
> >
> > Should be. Do your SA reports indicate that it is using the new value?
> >
> > >Also, any chance of that sendmail config to report the hit
> > ratings making it
> > >to exim?
> >
> > If someone feels like writing it...
> > --
> > 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