Sure make the changes your local.cf to override the bayes setting
set: score BAYES_99 0 0 5.400 5.400
to whatevery you want...
to:score BAYES_99 0 0 10.99 10.99
Correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm sure this group will :)) but the local.cf
rules have precedence over the stock rules.
Gary Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Savoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 3/11/2004 3:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: making bayes king
Hi all,
I am running a front-end gateway that analyzes all incoming
mail for spam and virii, before sending it off to various internal mail
servers. There are no mailboxes on the gateway so there is a single
Bayes engine (not one for each particular user - not sure how effective
it is to do it this way (ie have it learn from *all* incoming mail, as
opposed to being tailored by individual users)). Right now the Bayes
engine is learning from 367,209 spam and 42,487 ham (I don't know
if that is too much - to be honest, SA has run so well that I haven't
really been paying attention to it and have been too busy to keep up
with the mailing list - is there a way to trim that down, or is that a
solid number to work with?).
Anyway, I have SpamAssassin set to alter the Subject: of
a message, adding "***SPAM***" if the score is 7.0 or higher.
Here is my question: Sometimes I'll get a just-over-the-threshold
score of like 8.3, so it gets flagged OK as spam, but I notice that
the BAYES_90 was triggered with values like 0.988. But
SpamAssassin gives this a score of only 3.0. Can I up that value?
Can I make it 7.0 or so so this message is gauranteed to be flagged
as spam? I know SA recommends you don't tinker with their scores,
but isn't a BAYES_90 a sure thing?
TIA - jim -
