Pyzor

[Mark Nienberg]

Note that although this thread is entitled Pyzor we are now discussing
DCC.

 From man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf

dcc_body_max NUMBER
dcc_fuz1_max NUMBER
dcc_fuz2_max NUMBER
DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse) is a system similar to Razor.
This option sets how
often a message's body/fuz1/fuz2 checksum must have been reported to
the DCC server before
SpamAssassin will consider the DCC check as matched.
As nearly all DCC clients are auto-reporting these checksums you should
set this to a relatively
high value, e.g. 999999 (this is DCC's MANY count).
The default is 999999 for all these options.

Personally, I set these to half of the suggested value (500000), to
make DCC trigger more often, like this in spam.assassin.prefs.conf:
dcc_body_max 500000
dcc_fuz1_max 500000
dcc_fuz2_max 500000


Also, to get back to Pyzor for a minute, also from the man page:

pyzor_max NUMBER
Pyzor is a system similar to Razor.  This option sets how often a
message's body checksum must
have been reported to the Pyzor server before SpamAssassin will
consider the Pyzor check as
matched. The default is 5.

I also lower this to 3 for my setup, again to make pyzor trigger more
often, like this in spam.assassin.prefs.conf:
pyzor_max 3

Mark Nienberg


On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 08:50  AM, Julian Field wrote:

> At 16:14 02/01/2004, you wrote:
>> Errol Neal wrote:
>> > You'll will need to configure the Score for DCC and the message
>> count.
>> >
>> > score DCC_CHECK 3.7
>> > dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
>> > dcc_body_max 5
>> > dcc_fuz1_max 5
>> > dcc_fuz2_max 5
>>
>> It will work with the default score of 2.9 (with Bayes) and the path
>> is
>> also set.
>>
>> Do you know what the default values for body, fuz1/2 are? According to
>> the man page for dccproc they are zero so MailScanner/SA must enter
>> some
>> value there I guess.
>
> What do those values do? I've never bothered setting them myself. MS
> doesn't enter any values for them so I guess SA might?
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