Loren Wilton wrote:
Ok thanks turning it off works. I should edit the *.cf files or is
there another way to turn it off instead of settings things up so
updates kill off the setting? Anyway, I would think the rule is
useful to some extent and if not, why is it included with spamassassin?
Put it in local.cf. That is where local adjustments to release rules
and such should go.
Which version are you running? I had vaguely thought that this rule
had been dropped a while ago for poor hitrate, but I may be confusing
it with some other rules. There have been problems with both Yahoo
and AOL changing their configurations enough recently to end up
getting FPs on these sort of rules.
As a general thing, rules are added and scored because *at the time
they are scored* they do well against spam on the test corpuses of
spam. That is no guarantee that they will necessarily work for
someone else with a much different mail stream, although of course we
all hope that they will turn out fairly well in most cases. Also, the
rules did well when they are scored. Depending on how fast things
change, they may not do well at all years, months, or possibly even
weeks later.
If you are not using it, you should look into turning on spamassassin
updates. There are updated rule sets available for the more recent
releases that will change scores and add or subtract rules to match
the latest corpus characteristics.
Loren
We are using 3.1.1 ( distro patched ) until we upgrade our servers to a
newer version.
Thanks,
Randy
