Harebrained Idea for scanning SPAM?

[Julian Field]

At 14:23 09/03/2003, you wrote:
>This is just an idea (maybe a really dumb one) and I was wondering if this
>is even feasible to consider.  This came out of a conversation with my boss
>who was aggravated because he can't find his important emails among the adds
>to enlarge his private parts and I told him that I'd at least look into it.
>
>MS & SA do an excellent job of working together but the real problem is what
>do with SPAM once you've identified it as such.
>
>What I'd like to do is to set Spam Assassins' score high and just
>automatically delete those from the system.  Then I'd like to run it again
>with a lower score and stick the {SPAM} in the header and let the user
>decide.
>
>Currently we're configured at 6 and almost everything we catch is SPAM but
>we miss a lot.  When I drop it to 5, I catch almost 100% of all the spam but
>I also get too many false positives to automatically delete these.
>
>I guess the question is can Mailscanner & Spam Assassin be run more than
>once?

What's the difference between that and using the "High Score" options that
are in MailScanner already? Just set "High Scoring Spam Actions = delete"
and "Spam Actions = deliver".
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