On Monday 04 September 2006 00:31, Miles Fidelman wrote: > $sa_tag_level_deflt = 0.0; > $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.0; > $sa_kill_level_deflt = 10.0; > $sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 20; > > And this is what's confusing me:
Amavisd.conf is one of those files you have to read like a lawyer.... ;-) Look for something in Section IV (notifications) that reads like this: $final_spam_destiny = D_DISCARD; (You could have that set to D_BOUNCE, which would bounce spam at your kill level, but you should NEVER bounce spam IMHO) If it does say D_DISCARD that means spam that met your Kill_level is summarily dispatched to /dev/null These will usually be tagged in /var/log/mail with a line like this Sep 4 00:46:04 haight amavis[30066]: (30066-03) Not-Delivered, EVEN IF your Final_Spam_Destiny was Bounce, it gets converted to discard if the spma score gets up to your Cutoff_level. With the setup above, you are only going to see spam that scores between 5 and 10. Spam that scores higher should be discarded, or bounced or quarantined (depending on your Final Destination setting. Stuff that scores less than 5 is not considered spam. So the key here is to set your kill_level suitably high such that you won't have false positives getting lost. Recommendation: Get your bayes working first. Install razor2 and configure it so that spamassassin can check the mail against razor2. THEN: In my ever so humble opinion, (smirk), the above levels are just fine. In several years or running spamassassin, I've never had a false positive score above 10. And I check for this EVERY new version of SA. ( I set my kill level to 15 for a week just to make sure). Your situation may be different, but I just don't want to see anything that scores above 10. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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