> Recently, we upgraded from Spamassassin 2.61 to 3.0.2. > Guinevere is on version 2.17. Our threshold had been 4.9, and > we typically blocked 60% of our mail as being spam. > > Since the upgrade, we are blocking less than have of our > email as being spam. I have taught the Bayesian filter > another 600 spam and 600 ham messages, adjusted the Bayesian > filter scores, and dropped the threshold down to 2.9. We are > still catching much less spam then with the older version. > > Does anyone have advice on improving Spamassassin? > > > Spamassassin is installed on Server 2003 and is being invoked > by Guinevere 2.17.
I had to lower our threshhold to 4.0 when I moved to SA 3.0. It's lower than I'd like, but messages are scoring too low otherwise. I just haven't had the time to tweak enough rules to higher scores to get the level back up to 5. Bret