Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List Question

[Ian Lists]

----- "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

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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?
> 

Maybe just saying something like "Setting this to "no" will reduce the load on your server, but will prevent any additional points being added to the spam score.

> 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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