[mkettler_sa@verizon.net: {?} Re: Change the score of BAYES_9*]

Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem root at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Wed Jan 7 01:51:34 GMT 2009


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Subject: {?} Re: Change the score of BAYES_9*
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The Doctor wrote:
> I wish to make a system-wide change for BAYES_95 and BAYES_99 to 
> score 1000.0 .  999.999% of those e-mail scoringthat high 
> are worthy of GTUBE status.
>
> How can make that change systemwide?
>   
in local.cf add:

score BAYES_95 1000.0
score BAYES_99 1000.0

If you use spamd or an API level tool that caches a Mail::SpamAssassin
object (ie: MailScanner), it will need to be restarted to read the new
config.

However, I will warn you this is a bit dangerous. Theoretically, the
false positive rate of those two should be 5%. (ie: 5% of the mail they
match is nonspam mail).

That said, I also don't understand why such a strong score. That's
higher than a manual whitelisting will compensate for (-100). Do you
really want this to be so high that it over-rides your explicit
whitelists? Why not use something like 20 or 50?

GTUBE is scored so high because it needs to over-ride any whitelisting.
But nothing else should ever need such a high score.




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Yes I still run MailScanner and have adjust the local.cf but still see the 
default BAYES_9* score.

Why is that score not changing?

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