Is it normal to have to crank the required_hits setting up to 10 before
ordinary mail gets through?

I just started using Spamassassin to filter a pop account on an ISP
connection. The ISP's spam software was stopping about 3,000 spams a
month, but another 3,000 or so were still getting through. 

I spent the day tweaking their settings and mine both. I am now down to
only a few dozen a day getting through from the ISP, but everything that
did get through was going straight to the spam folder unless it was
caught by another filter first. 

I had to put the filter that calls Spamassassin dead last in order to
let _anything_ through. I finally got one regular email through with
required_hits set to 10 and I only tried that after reading about
someone else's setting things too high on the list.

Lee

-- 
L. Parker
chief cook, bottle washer and sometime sysadmin
cacaphony.net

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