Indeed you should customize score based on your own mails. I've corrected scores of about 30 rules and now I'm happy with required_hits=5 and get only 1..2 false positives and 5..10 not-recognized spam messages from about 300 messages a day.
-- Dimitry On Wednesday 14 May 2003 03:14, David Hane wrote: > I had the same problem with the 5 setting early on too. My problem is that > I receive many email from foreign users. The language settings were killing > me due to the high rating (4 I think). Once I turned that test off my 5 > setting has been 100% correct. > > I would check the false positive messages then adjust the tests that are > giving you problems. Either disable them or lower their score. > > Dave Hane > > On Tuesday 13 May 2003 16:09, Nexus wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Vision Through Sound" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:01 PM > > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Fwd: this address is no longer available > > > > > Setting SpamAssassin to trigger at 5.0 is pretty silly IMO. You'll get > > > a ton of false positives. > > > > Having used it for about a month, I have 438 spams correctly identified > > with 2 false positives - one being the start of this thread due to the > > example spam messsage, the other being someone asking my advice on a scam > > email. I can live with those figures (and it's set to 5 as well). > > YMMV of course. > > > > Cheers. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
