Hi,

I restart spamd everytime I change local.cf and unfortunately John changing
the value as you've suggested and as I mentioned I had already tried,
doesn't actually change the score it assigns. Still trying to figure this
out.

--Chuck

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:33 AM Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote:

> I think he might also need to restart spamd/amavisd/whatever to have the
> local.cf change take place.
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> 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.
>>
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