Gary Funck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 13:57:00 -0700]: > In my experience, there are spam messages that sneak past Spam Assassin, > that Razor will pick up. Those are the ones that I'm calling "marginal". > Basically, I'm hoping that "the collective" of Razor users make a better > judge of spam than any single program like SA can, and therefore I can > benefit from their judgement and get more extensive spam filtering. I've > seen examples of this already, where SA doesn't score the spam high enough > to bounce it, but Razor does.
I think perhaps you missed the fact that SA scores are adjustable. If you want SA to tag all messages listed in Razor then you can put this in your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. score RAZOR_CHECK 10 The default score is 3 and the default threshold needed is 5. Therefore if you wish to have any razor listed messages tagged by SA then setting a score for any razor listed messages to anything above 5 would be sufficient. If you are already using SA then the above would be more efficient. Otherwise you are running all of the mail through razor twice, once for SA and once again afterward. If you really want to run Razor individually then you should set the 'score RAZOR_CHECK 0' so that SA won't do it and avoid the double network hit. However, one of the benefits of using SA in combination with Razor has been the history of false positive reports in the razor database. The current score of 3 is hefty, but not enough by itself to tag as spam. But for any real spam is usually enough to push it over the threshold. Razor2 addresses the false positive problem but is not yet in as wide of use as Razor1. Bob
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