confusion on spam score number format

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Thanks.  Patch applied.  Now I will have to wait several hours for
> more spam to hit my mailbox before I can see if it works...
> Seriously...  So much of our spam goes over the high spam score of
> 10 and gets deleted anymore that I get very few in the range of
> 5-10 that actually gets delivered.  I only get about 6/day this
> way...  This is how good MailScanner really is!
>

Jeff,

If you only deliver spam in the range 5-10 then the format you specified 
(%6.2f) will give you 3 digits before the decimal point... which is 
pointless... %5.2f would be sufficient (and even %4.2f if you don't 
deliver messages with a score = 10).

Denis

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