Bayes scores

[Jerry Benton]

Those are commented out by default in the prefs file. You should only
define them to override spamassassin defaults. See
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html

Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:33 PM, <Michael.Bradley at bakerbotts.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Great question and I've been wondering the same.
>
> MB
>
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> I was reviewing my configs and noticed this in spam.assassin.prefs.conf:
>
> # Bump up SpamAssassin scores on the high and low end # score BAYES_00
> -15.0 # score BAYES_05 -5.0 score BAYES_50 2.5 score BAYES_60 2.75 score
> BAYES_70 3.0 score BAYES_80 4.0 score BAYES_90 4.5 score BAYES_95 4.75
> score BAYES_99 6.0
>
> Given that spamassassin is constantly being tuned and updated, is is
> prudent to leave those uncommented or would one be better served by going
> with the spamassassin defaults?  I'm sure Julian had a good reason to tweak
> them some years back, but given the ever shifting spam landscape I'm not
> sure if it's as applicable as it once was...
>
>  ...Kevin
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