I think he might also need to restart spamd/amavisd/whatever to have the local.cf change take place. -- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:18 AM John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018, Chuck McManis wrote: > > > I have been trying to tune scores to achieve better matches with spam > that > > is getting through. And one test which shows up is HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST > > which is being scored for 0. Doing a scan of my incoming mail flow this > is > > a huge signal, perhaps even a disqualifying one as I have yet to find a > > legitimate piece of email where this is true and it isn't spam. > > > > So in my local.cf file I added: > > > > score HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST 10 > > > > To have it add 10 points to the spam score, recompiled rules and > restarted > > spamd. Yet it still gives it 0 points. > > > > 0.0 HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST BODY: HTML font color similar or identical to > > background > > > > How do I change this value? > > In your local config file: > > score HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST 1.000 # or whatever score you prefer > > > The reason it scores so low in the base ruleset is the S/O is *very* low > in the masscheck corpora - 0.114 - 4% spam hits vs. 31% ham hits. > > You might want to be careful if you intend to treat that as a poison pill > by itself... > > I'll take a look at whether its performance can be improved. > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Politicians never accuse you of "greed" for wanting other people's > money, only for wanting to keep your own money. -- Joseph Sobran > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 557 days since the first commercial re-flight of an orbital booster > (SpaceX) >
