spamassassin 2.53 & MailScanner

[Desai, Jason]

I am not a spamassassin expert, but from what I can tell by looking at the
list of tests it does (http://spamassassin.rediris.es/tests.html), many
tests score lower with "net".  I assume that "net" means you do some sort of
check over the internet, such as an RBL lookup or a DCC check.  So if you
only do RBL lookups but not DCC, Razor2, or Pyzor, some tests will score
even lower and may result in email not being tagged as spam.

I was seeing a lot of spam get through until I installed DCC, Razor2, and
Pyzor.

Hope this helps.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] spamassassin 2.53 & MailScanner
>
>
> I just installed DCC yesterday and am already seeing improved
> results.  You
> might give that a shot.
>
> Mike
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ron E.
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:32 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: spamassassin 2.53 & MailScanner
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions for
> > improving/tweaking SpamAssassin (2.53) settings -- I am
> > running MailScanner & SpamAssassin 2.53 but still getting a
> > fair amount of spam not over the default score of 5, or
> > sometimes even with a negative score.
> >
> > I'm running a pretty busy system that handles about 15-20k
> > messages per day.
> >
> > I have tried lowering the score threshold but of course then
> > I get more false positives. I've seen mention that
> > SpamAssassin 2.60 is much improved but I hesitate to use it
> > at this point.
> >
> > One idea I had was enabling Vipul's Razor, but I've never
> > used it. Any input would be of interest.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ron
> >
>