I've been using SA on a Windows machine (SpamAssassin In A Box) for
about 10 years. I wouldn't call it 'research'. It's simply
administrator and user observation. With the threshold at 5.0 I'm
getting tons of spam unflagged. I was at 4.0 for years on my old
server, and didn't have much of anything misflagged as spam. RIght now
I'm being inundated with uncaught spam. Perhaps there's something else
wrong that's causing the scores for spam to come in so low. If so, I'm
more than happy to address that. But I'm using SA right out of the zip
file, and this is what I'm getting. I have no clue how to make spam
scores on obvious spam increase to put them over the 5.0 threshold.
So I have two choices: a) fix my scoring issue and get the scores of
actual spam a lot higher than they currently are, or b) figure out some
way to change the threshold on this new installation back to what I had
on my old server. Either solution is fine with me. But the option of
having half of the mail dumped into my clients' inboxes be unflagged,
obvious spam is not making any of my clients happy.
Suggestions welcome.
Thx
Jerry
On 9/27/2019 11:40 PM, LuKreme wrote:
On Sep 27, 2019, at 13:14, Jerry Malcolm <techst...@malcolms.com> wrote:
I am trying to change the results threshold from 5.0 to 4.0.
Do you have a really good reason that you have researched and really examined
for doing this based on years of experience with SpamAssassin? If so, great.
But otherwise, in nearly all cases, this is a bad idea born out of a
misunderstanding of how SA works.
Hint: for most servers and most users, lowering the threshold will simply mark
legitimate mail as spam, annoying everyone. It is not a panacea to tag “mo’
spam”.
