Modifying SpamAssassin scores when using MailScanner

[Julian Field]

On 20 Jul 2006, at 16:23, Tony Stocker wrote:

> Julien,
>
> Thanks, so basically I would just add an entry that follows the same
> format as I would use in local.cf, correct?  In other words I would
> just add a line to spam.assassin.prefs.conf that looks like:
>
> score INVESTMENT_ADVICE 5.0
>
> Is that correct?

Yes.

>
> Also, a related question - I'm using Postfix, and my SA bayes
> directory seems to be
> /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/.  Now the 'postfix' user is a
> nologin account, and the home directory is slightly different.  When I
> use `sa-learn` to try to train the SA bayes database from root, the
> files get created in /root/.spamassassin.  I want to train the
> system-wide entries, thus applying to all users, in the
> /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/ directory.  How can I do this?

Your followup says what I was going to say. Just make sure the  
ownership of the files is correct, or the postfix user won't be able  
to write to them.

> Thanks for the help, by the way the book has been very helpful for
> most situations!

Glad you like it!

>
> Tony
>
> On 7/20/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 Jul 2006, at 15:04, Tony Stocker wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I know that MailScanner moves some of the SA configuration into  
>> it so
>> > before I go mucking around with files I want to make sure that I'm
>> > mucking around with the RIGHT files.
>> >
>> > Basically I want to raise the score assigned to spam.  For instance
>> > the default value for "INVESTMENT_ADVICE" is 2.960 and I want to  
>> raise
>> > this.  Now the header comments for
>> > /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf says not to directly modify  
>> that
>> > file, but rather to modify /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.
>> >
>> > Is this still true when using MailScanner?  Or is there a place  
>> in MS
>> > that I should be making these custom scoring tweaks?
>>
>> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>
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