4.28.x = more spam?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 4 13:46:12 GMT 2004


As far as I am aware, I haven't changed any of the spam code recently,
except for 1 minor change to what happens if SpamAssassin times out 20
times in a row.

At 13:42 04/03/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>    This may be coincidence, but I've noticed a big uptick
>in spam to my personal mailbox since going to 4.28.x (4 now).
>I've done a "spamassassin -D --lint" and looked at the output;
>nothing unusual there.  What would the equivalent by-hand
>SA command be for what MS does internally?  Is
>"spamassassin -p /etc/mail/spamassassin -D --lint" equivalent,
>or would there be more arguments?

Not sure, I never use the command-line script myself. But you need to tell
SA about your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file (which looks rather like a
user_prefs file).

>   This deserves an entry in
>the FAQ.
>
>Jeff Earickson
>Colby College

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