SA 3.0.0, what other local cf files?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 29 01:44:00 IST 2004


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At 21:48 28/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>After upgrading from SA 2.64 to 3.0 last week (and wiping out my Bayes
>database in a struggle to get that working), I have noticed that my
>percentage of high spam discards have dropped from about 75% of my
>spam to about 25%.
>
>The other thing I did last week was to clean out local rulesets in
>/etc/mail/spamassassin -- I removed backhair.cf, antidrug.cf,
>bogus-virus-warnings.cf, and multi.surbl.org.cf (Steve Swaney's creation?).
>I was under the impression that a lot of this had been added to 3.0.
>After poking around the 3.0 rulesets, I'm not convinced and I've
>restored these files to /etc/mail/spamassassin.

Of that lot, the only ones you need to keep are antidrug.cf and
bogus-virus-warnings.cf, the others are all built in.
If you use bogus-virus-warnings.cf, please set
         score VIRUS_WARNING62 0
or else posts from me will often get thrown away :-(
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