On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 18:03, Steve Thomas wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:09:18PM +0200, Bram Mertens is rumored to have > said: > > [...] > > Wouldn't it be easier to grep the rules and find out which rule triggers > > on this subject and disable that rule? > > > > To disable a rule simply add > > score RULE_TO_BE_DISABLED 0.00 > > to your local.cf > > You're reducing the effectiveness of SA by doing that, though.
How so? If this rule triggers on ham for the OP, SA effectiveness shouldn't be touched or am I mistaken? > You also run the risk of some other feature of the wanted e-mails > causing a false positive. Sorry but I don't see the difference between your suggestion and mine. Your rule lowers the score for ALL messages containing a certain word or word combination after it has been increased by a rule that looks for exactly those words. This would require 2 rules to be evaluated, OTOH disabling the rule by assinging a score 0 to it reduces the number of rules to be checked by 1 (correct me if I'm wrong but I believe rules with a score 0 aren't evaluated at all). Of course if the OP wants to exclude only messages with a certain SUBJECT while still marking messages containing the same word(s) in the BODY as spam, your rule is the "right thing to do". Regards Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) kernel 2.4.20-4GB i686 256MB RAM # # 5:28pm up 45 days 21:06, 5 users, load average: 0.18, 0.22, 0.09 #
