You should probably check that none of your ham (i.e. non-spam)
messages contains SPAM_99 or SPAM_999. It can happen when spammers
poison your bayes database, and increased score in that case might
lead to legitimate mail being misclassified as a spam. 

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 10:37:40AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I understand that turning knobs without understanding the consequences can
> do bad thing, but almost all of the spam that gets through SA on my server
> has SPAM_99 or SPAM_999 set in the headers. It is obviously spam, so I don't
> really get how it wasn't flagged, but it wasn't. What are the risks of
> giving more weight to SPAM_99 and/or SPAM_999? Explain it like I'm five,
> sorry, it's probably something simple that I just don't understand.
> 
> Thomas
> 

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