changing spamassassin points configuration

kfliong kfliong at WOFS.COM
Thu Mar 4 10:09:46 GMT 2004


So in other word, I just have to let the user stop getting some mails
(eventhough some might be important) while waiting for SA to learn that the
sender is not sending spams?

At 05:20 AM 3/4/2004, you wrote:

>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>Stuff that isn't spam.
>>
>>At 11:41 03/03/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>err...what's "ham"?
>>>
>>>At 07:09 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>kfliong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I have this email which is not spam but have a score of 5.642 which is
>>>>>high
>>>>>as default of more than 5 is considered spam.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can I know how I can reduce the score?
>>>>>
>>>>>spam, SpamAssassin (score=5.642, required 5, BAYES_90 2.10,
>>>>>DATE_IN_PAST_12_24 0.75, DEAR_SOMETHING 2.30, HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE
>>>>>0.10,
>>>>>HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE 0.10, HTML_MESSAGE 0.10, HTML_TAG_BALANCE_A
>>>>>0.20)
>>>>>
>>>>>Also, the scores mainly comes from BAYES_90 2.10 and DEAR_SOMETHING
>>>>>2.30....where can i get more details on what those score means? Does
>>>>>mailscanner uses a different config file for controlling spamassassin?
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks
>>>>ISnt this a situation for learning as ham? I am NO expert, but if you
>>>>have no other method maybe turn on archiving till you get a copy of
>>>>this
>>>>message, then sa-learn it as ham?:
>>>
>>>
>>>thanks
>>
>>
>>--
>>Julian Field
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>>
>Since i think Julian's comment is confirmation - this is the sort of
>thing that using Bayesian Learning (Bayes) with spama assassin will fix.
>
>I am not well versed enought o try and explain it, so have a search
>through the list archives, or google, its works plenty good with
>mailscanner and spam assassin.

thanks



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