SpamAssassin Prefs File problem

[Peter Bonivart]

Shahid Hussain wrote:
  > yes, it is pointed to the correct dir.
>
> in spam.assassin.prefs.conf I have:
> required_hits           2.0
> subject_tag             [Possible Spam?]
> report_safe             1
> and so on...
>
> For some reason when I recieve spam mail, at the header say:
> X-ZoneWave.NET-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=3.566,
>  required 6, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS 0.87, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
>  SUB_HELLO 2.70)
>
> required 6?
> it should be 2
>
>
> In MailScanner.conf I have:
> Use SpamAssassin = yes
> Max SpamAssassin Size = 30000
> #Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
> High SpamAssassin Score = 10
> SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
> SpamAssassin Prefs File = %etc-dir%/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

You're not supposed to use spam.assassin.prefs.conf for options that
MailScanner.conf covers. If you want the score to be 2, then set it to
that in MailScanner.conf. Same goes for the tagging, that's handled by
MS too.

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