MailScanner 4.56.8

[Jeremy Blonde]

I've been running with AWL, Bayes, and Razor with 4.55.6.  It's been
running fine and it's tuned to the point that I'm not constantly keeping
tabs on it.

The other night I upgraded to 4.56.8 and the SpamAssassin scores were
all over the place.  I noticed that SpamAssassin was now adding a number
of new flags (or perhaps that's due to MailScanner), but the scores were
so divergent that I had to watch it at all times because it was catching
a lot of false positives.  Not all messages were getting an AWL score or
Bayes score.  The most problematic domains were yahoo.com, comcast.net,
etc., any of the ones that have a mixture of legit and spam sources.  I
noticed that autolearn was working, I could see the message scores
fluctuating as it learned but it was actually lowering the score on some
messages that should have been learned as spam (although now that I
think about it, I'll have to verify that it wasn't AWL that was lowering
the score).

Is there something I'm missing with the upgrade?  Do I need to clear AWL
or do some tweaking of the SpamAssassin scores in order to tune this?  I
haven't had to tweak the SpamAssassin scores very much in the past.
Also, ALL_TRUSTED is turned off and I didn't run with Razor.

Thanks,
Jeremy Blonde
Instructional Technology - Server Support
Grant Joint Union High School District


                                                                                                                                           

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