Required SpamAssassin Score

[Paul Welsh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Required SpamAssassin Score


> >Quick question.  Way back in version 4.01 the "required_hits" in
> >spam.assassin.prefs.conf was replaced by "Required SpamAssassin Score" in
> >MailScanner.conf.
> >
> >The default required_hits value was 5.  This default was, I believe,
changed
> >to 6.  Any particular reason?
>
> Because 6 is the figure I use and I think it is a better choice than 5.
> With 6 I get no false positives at all, which I think is a far more
> important criteria than missing the odd one with a false negative.

That's interesting.  Is this using SA's default scoring?  Personally, I give
a couple of the RBLs a higher weighting than the SA default.

Today I have no false positives using 5 as the trigger, but at the weekend
it's nearly *all* spam!