BAYES issues

[Scott Silva]

Jay Chandler spake the following on 2/22/2007 12:36 PM:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> Jay Chandler spake the following on 2/22/2007 11:55 AM:
>>   You need to add score changes to the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file,
>> not make
>> changes to any of spamassassin's managed files.
>>
>> Add something like this;
>> score URIBL_BLACK 6.0
>> or
>> score URIBL_BLACK 0 6.0 0 6.0
>> if you want to have different scores based on the net/no-net
>> bayes/nobayes tests
>>
>>
>>   
> VERY interesting.
> I'd made this change before, and hadn't correctly identified the
> /var/lib/spamassassin heirarchy within MailScanner.conf.  As soon as I
> did this, the update rules took precedence.
> 
> Is spam.assassin.prefs.conf supposed to act as an override on anything
> in the standard rules directories?
> 
> 
It gets loaded later, so it's scores will be the last changed. It should over
ride any score changes, and it is a good place to add/keep any additional hand
made rules.

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