I'm switching to SpamAssassin from PureMessage. One feature I'm used to is the GAUGE, which is used in rewriting headers much the same way as _STARS(*)_. PureMessage differs from SpamAssassin in that it uses a percentage rather than a score for determining if something is spam -- things are 0% to 100% likely to be spam.
GAUGE inserted one star for every 10% over the spam threshold. This mean, for us, that you could never get more than six stars, and our subjects ranged from [SPAM:*] to [SPAM:******]. Now that I'm using SpamAssassin with a spam threshold of 5 and trying to do the same thing, my subjects range from [SPAM:*****] to [SPAM:***...***], the latter of which is downright unreadable. Is there either: a) any way to get _STARS(*)_ to be a little less verbose; or b) use a different tag to get a similar effect? I'm aware that I'll most likely be unable to duplicate the behavior I'm accustomed to, but I'd like to give my users as much consistency as possible. Thanks! Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
