Emails Not Bouncing

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 11 21:26:04 IST 2004


At 21:06 11/05/2004, you wrote:
>NateDog wrote:
>>DCC works now :)  It's in this file that I missed to turn it on in:
>>mcp.spam.assassin.prefs.conf  But use_bayes is still to 0.
>
>Set it to 1 if you want to start using Bayes. After a couple of hundred
>mails it will start scoring.

Why would you want to use Bayes or DCC in your MCP setup? MCP is designed
for spotting your own rules, applying general spam tests here doesn't make
sense at all. If it's spam detection you want, then just use
spam.assassin.prefs.conf, don't touch mcp*.


>>is spam, spamhaus-XBL, SBL+XBL, spamcop.net, CBL, SpamAssassin
>>(score=17.952, required 4, autolearn=spam,
>>CLICK_BELOW 0.00, DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K 4.40, DCC_CHECK 1.81, FORGED_MUA_OIMO
>>2.70,
>>FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 0.48, FROM_NUM_AT_WEBMAIL 1.10, MISSING_MIMEOLE 1.15,
>>PYZOR_CHECK
>>0.32, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 2.25, RCVD_IN_DSBL 1.10, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK
>>2.55,
>>RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10)
>
>If you use Bayes DCC would have scored 2.91.
>
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>/Peter Bonivart
>
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