On 15.12.2014 20:09 UK Time, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
On 15.12.2014 20:16, Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 15.12.2014 18:03 UK Time, Joe Quinn wrote:
On 12/15/2014 12:34 PM, Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 15.12.2014 17:27 UK Time, Joe Quinn wrote:
On 12/15/2014 12:20 PM, Herbert Eppel wrote:
I use QiQ.co.uk for web hosting and associated e-mail services.
QiQ offer SpamAssassin as an integrated feature that is accessible
via cPanel – see screenshot below.
In view of the fact that some of my domains are increasingly
inundated with spam, I would like to reduce the SpamAssassin score
from the default value of 5 to a lower value, in order to make
SpamAssassin more 'aggressive'. However, I don't really want to
enable Spam Auto-Delete because I want to be able to check the
spam folder for false positives, but apparently there is no way to
change the setting without simultaneously enabling the "Spam
Auto-Delete" function.
Am I missing something?
Thank you
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
You'll need to ask QiQ. SA is only a classifier. It takes an email
as input and outputs score results, plus a modified email with spam
headers.
I would also caution against lowering the score threshold more than
0.5 or so. There's a point where it goes from "catching more spam"
to "catching more of everything".
Thanks for your reply.
I already asked QiQ support. They asked me to ask SA :-)
Here is their reply:
/I will take a look at the filter but would imagine if that is how
Spam Assassin made the program that way, then there is nothing we
can do to change it, though contacting Spam Assassin for advice may
be the way forward, as we do not provide Spam Assassin, it is a part
of cPanel - both third party programs./
The question remains: How can I change the SA score without
simultaneously enabling the "Spam Auto-Delete" function?
Perhaps I need to ask cPanel support?
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
(bringing this back on list)
Quite likely. I am not familiar enough with cPanel to know the level
of configuration it gives, but my educated guess would be that it's
up to QiQ to configure their install of cPanel. It shouldn't hurt to
ask cPanel people anyway, even if it's just for them to say exactly
what options QiQ should set that opens the option to classify without
discard.
Ooops, I didn't realise I had replied privately. Thanks for your
further reply.
Is there another way to access the SA score setting, outside cPanel?
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
SpamAssassin has global settings in text files in the server, and also
*possibly* user definable settings also in a text file(s) in the disk of
the server. If you have a home directory the server (shell access) *and*
QiQ has configured SpamAsassin to allow user configured settings, then
yes. If neither of these options evaluate to "yes" then no.
Thanks for your reply. I have access to /.spamassassin/user_prefs - is
that what you mean?
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
