Custom Score Being Reset?

2013-04-16 Thread Mark A. Olbert
I run spamassassin under linux using the Maia Mailguard system. I've been trying to tweak the score for RP_MATCHES_RCVD because the default values let too much spam through. However, when I insert the following into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, update maia & restart amavisd: score RP_MATCH

Re: Calling spamassassin directly yields very different results than calling spamassassin via amavis-new

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel McDonald
On 4/16/13 2:59 PM, "Ben Johnson" wrote: >Are there any normal circumstances under which Bayes tests are not run? Yes, if USE_BAYES = 0 is included in the local.cf file. > > If not, are there circumstances under which Bayes tests are run but > their results are not included in the message he

Re: Calling spamassassin directly yields very different results than calling spamassassin via amavis-new

2013-04-16 Thread Ben Johnson
Apologies for resurrecting the thread, but I never did receive a response to this particular aspect of the problem (asked on Jan 18, 2013, 8:51 AM). This is probably because I replied to my own post before anyone else did, and changed the subject slightly. We are being hammered pretty hard with sp

Re: URL spam and RP_MATCHES_RCVD

2013-04-16 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex wrote: > I can understand adjusting the values slightly for each user's > particular situation, but doesn't it generally throw off the balance of > how the email as a whole is weighted when you adjust values in that way? If a rule is causing undesired behaviour (for this particular rule, fals

Subject: Fusemail Technical Support for Case - 03278437 ref:_00D301Siv._50060Ppgo5:ref – Re: URL spam and RP_MATCHES_RCVD

2013-04-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/04/13 14:28, Ned Slider wrote: In an ideal world, yes. But I suspect the SA auto-generated scoring system is far from an ideal world due to the limited number of contributors to the spam/ham corpus and the fact that your or my mail streams might not accurately reflect those contributed to

Re: URL spam and RP_MATCHES_RCVD

2013-04-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/04/13 00:07, Alex wrote: Hi, But I stand by my local.cf entry reducing RP_MATCHES_RCVD to an advisory -0.001; it may be useful in combination with other rules, but I don't think it's valuable enough on its own to have even -0.5 points. I can't say I've seen any evidence in the mail s