What is the best High SpamAssassin Score

[Stephe Campbell]

Can these be put in the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file if I want to modify
them for my site?

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: What is the best High SpamAssassin Score


> At 19:47 23/02/2004, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:22:42AM -0000, Randal, Phil wrote:
> > > In my /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
> >...
> > > Spamassassin needs to learn 200 spam before auto-learning kicks in, if
I
> > > recall correctly.  I used Steve Freegard's MailWatch
> > > (http://mailwatch.sf.net) and fed spam to sa-learn from there.  Once
Bayes
> > > is trained, it makes quite a difference.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Phil
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > > > Behalf Of Drew Marshall
> > > > Sent: 23 February 2004 11:13
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Re: What is the best High SpamAssassin Score
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Having only just realised that by running the latest stable SA I
have
> > > > automatic Bayes, I am just starting to play. So how do I change the
> >...
> > > > matter what or
> > > > can I just pick 200 legitimate messages and feed the hungry beast?
> > > >
> > > > Drew (Feeling stupid this morning)
> > > >
> > > > Randal, Phil said:
> > > > > My threshold is 4.75 for low, 10.25 for high, autolearning
> > > > at 9, with
> >
> >But where do you set the autolearning threshold? I haven't adjusted mine
> >... it seems to be somewhere around 14 or 15, but I don't know where
> >this is set.
>
> It's in "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf"...
>         bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam n.nn (default: 0.1)
>             The score threshold below which a mail has to score, to be fed
into
>             SpamAssassin's learning systems automatically as a non-spam
mes-
>             sage.
>
>         bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam n.nn    (default: 12.0)
>             The score threshold above which a mail has to score, to be fed
into
>             SpamAssassin's learning systems automatically as a spam
message.
>
>             Note: SpamAssassin requires at least 3 points from the header,
and
>             3 points from the body to auto-learn as spam.  Therefore, the
mini-
>             mum working value for this option is 6.
>
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