Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List Question

[Julian Field]

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Ian Lists wrote:
> If I have the "Spam Lists To Reach High Score" set to 1, is it still necessary to set "Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List" to yes.  I am pretty sure it isn't necessary, but I'm confused about this sentence in the comment, "Setting this to "no" will reduce the load on your server, but will stop the High Scoring Spam Actions from ever happening."
Looks like I need to improve the comment there. That last bit is no 
longer quite true, as enough spam list hits will cause it to hit 
high-scoring spam actions. Can you suggest some better wording for it? 
The description in The Book suffers from exactly the same problem.

>   I'm having an issue with SpamAssassin timeouts and have tried looking at everything else.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian 
>
>
> # If a message appears in at least this number of "Spam Lists" (as defined
> # above), then the message will be treated as "High Scoring Spam" and so
> # the "High Scoring Spam Actions" will happen. You probably want to set
> # this to 2 if you are actually using this feature. 5 is high enough that
> # it will never happen unless you use lots of "Spam Lists".
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 1
>
>
> # If the message sender is on any of the Spam Lists, do you still want
> # to do the SpamAssassin checks? Setting this to "no" will reduce the load
> # on your server, but will stop the High Scoring Spam Actions from ever
> # happening.
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes
>
>
>   

Jules

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