Score modifications seem to be ignored?

[Steve Weigold]

So, I'm still working on resolving this.  In my continued efforts, I've 
learned that my revised scores are being ignored because they are trying 
to change rules in the compiled ruleset.  I realize this is more a 
SpamAssassin question than a MailScanner question, but since MailScanner 
runs SpamAssassin directly and uses it's own SpamAssassin config 
(apparently rather than local.cf), this seems the place to discuss it.

Since the rules I want to tweak are in the compiled ruleset, do I

A - find the ruleset files, change the ratings and recompile with 
sa-compile?  Some other variation of this approach?  Are my revised 
rules at risk of being overwritten with an update?

B - make my own similar custom rule (somehow) to ones I feel I want to 
increase?  Presumably those would go in spam.assassin.prefs.conf?

C - some other approach I haven't thought of?

Thanks!
Steve

On 12/9/2015 12:50 PM, Steve Weigold wrote:
>
> In watching my logs on my new gateway, I noticed a couple of rules 
> that I wanted to have a higher effect on the SpamAssassin score. I 
> modified them in spam.assassin.prefs.conf (as below) and restarted 
> MailScanner, but the change doesn't seem to be recognized.
>
> score LOTS_OF_MONEY 2
> score URIBL_DBL_SPAM 3.5
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Steve
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