I have been trying to change the spam score in MailScanner and have been having some problems with s

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Fri Feb 4 22:18:26 GMT 2005


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David Curtis wrote:
> I have been trying to change the spam score in MailScanner and have been
> having some problems with some. I did not have a score in the
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf for AWL. I added "score AWL 1.393 1.320 1.613
> 1.02". It still shows in the log as AWL -1.61. Am I missing something???
> Do I have rules in spamassassin some place else that I am missing???
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> Feb  4 10:55:42 spamfilter MailScanner[3773]: Message 917E516F54F.517ED
> from 65.205.157.199 (cash at earningsavenue.com) to sbschools.net is spam,
> SBL+XBL, SpamAssassin (score=9.36, required 4.3, AWL -1.61, BAYES_50
> 0.00, BE_BOSS 1.65, HTML_80_90 0.15, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 1.05,
> HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02 0.02, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_NONELEMENT_00_10 0.00,
> HTML_WEB_BUGS 0.04, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.18, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID 1.72,
> RCVD_IN_SBL 0.50, URIBL_OB_SURBL 3.21, URIBL_SBL 1.00, URIBL_WS_SURBL
> 1.46)

You can't score AWL manually, you can only turn it on or off by using
the "use_auto_whitelist" option set to 1 or 0. Many would recommend
disabling it when used with MS. I suggest you read the README file that
came with SA to learn how it scores messages.

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/Peter Bonivart

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