Setting Required SpamAssassin Score

[Jules Field]

On 14/11/2010 18:24, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Hi
>
> did you restart MailScanner after altering the MailScannerconf?
>
> Also is there a link from the spamassassin site preferences dir (where 
> ever local.cf <http://local.cf> is found, usually 
> /etc/mail/spamassassin but may be different in Debian)? There should 
> be a mailscanner.cf <http://mailscanner.cf> which is a symbolic link 
> to MailScanner.conf
He meant spam.assassin.prefs.conf at the end of that sentence, not 
MailScanner.conf.

Jules.

> On 14 November 2010 16:56, Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw 
> <mailto:mailscanner at mango.zw>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     I am running MailScanner version 4.79.11 under Debian 5 with Exim4
>     version
>     4.69.
>
>     Using the default MailScanner.conf setting of:
>
>            Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
>
>     I find that MailScanner is quarantining messages as spam when the
>     score is 5:
>
>     MailScanner[16105]: Message 1PHew2-0004bD-71 from 196.27.122.30
>     (postmaster at mango.zw <mailto:postmaster at mango.zw>) to
>     smtp.mango.zw <http://smtp.mango.zw> is spam, SpamAssassin (not
>     cached,
>     score=5.002, required 5, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24 1.77, INVALID_DATE 1.65,
>     MISSING_HEADERS 1.58)
>
>     I append relevant config lines.
>
>     Could someone please help out this newbie to SpamAssassin?
>
>     Regards
>
>     Jim Holland
>     System Administrator
>     Mango - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
>     Include Scores In SpamAssassin Report = yes
>     Always Include SpamAssassin Report = no
>     Use SpamAssassin = yes
>     Max SpamAssassin Size = 200k
>     Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
>     High SpamAssassin Score = 10
>     SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = yes
>     SpamAssassin Timeout = 75
>     Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 10
>     SpamAssassin Timeouts History = 30
>     Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes
>     Include Binary Attachments In SpamAssassin = no
>     Cache SpamAssassin Results = yes
>     SpamAssassin Cache Database File =
>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>     SpamAssassin Rule Actions =
>     Sender SpamAssassin Report = %report-dir%/sender.spam.sa.report.txt
>     Log SpamAssassin Rule Actions = yes
>     SpamAssassin Temporary Dir =
>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
>     SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/lib/MailScanner
>     SpamAssassin Install Prefix =
>     SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
>     SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir =
>     SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir =
>     MCP Required SpamAssassin Score = 1
>     MCP High SpamAssassin Score = 10
>     MCP Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 20
>     MCP Max SpamAssassin Size = 100k
>     MCP SpamAssassin Timeout = 10
>     MCP SpamAssassin Prefs File = %mcp-dir%/mcp.spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>     MCP SpamAssassin User State Dir =
>     MCP SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir = %mcp-dir%
>     MCP SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir = %mcp-dir%
>     MCP SpamAssassin Install Prefix = %mcp-dir%
>     SpamAssassin Cache Timings = 1800,300,10800,172800,600
>     Debug SpamAssassin = no
>
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