Modifying SpamAssassin scores when using MailScanner

[David Nalley]

Tony,

That works, however, I found it easier to just symlink the roots bayes
directory to MailScanners, no having to enter the dbpath switch. 

David Nalley 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Tony Stoer
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:34 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Modifying SpamAssassin scores when using MailScanner
> 
> Looking around at the documentation, I think I just need to 
> do the following, but somebody please check me if I'm wrong:
> 
> sa-learn --dbpath /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin --spam 
> [path/to/spam]
> 
> Yes?
> 
> On 7/20/06, Tony Stocker <akostocker at gmail.com> 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?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks for the help, by the way the book has been very helpful for 
> > most situations!
> >
> > 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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