On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:46:21 +0200 Thomas Barth wrote: > Am 20.09.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Bowie Bailey: > > >> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=14.009 tag=2 tag2=6.31 kill=6.31 > >> tests=[HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MESSAGEID_LOCAL=8, > >> MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.105, > >> PYZOR_CHECK=1.985, RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT=1.644, > >> RDNS_NONE=1.274] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no > > > > The base SA ruleset is optimized to detect spam with a score of > > 5.0. If you raise that score, you will allow more spam to come > > through. If you lower that score, you will see more legitimate > > messages blocked as spam. Make sure you know what you are doing > > before you change this score. > > I read that 5.0 is aggressive and suitable for single user setup, > conservative values are 8.0 or 11.0.
It depends what you are doing; 5.0 is low for outright rejection, but what's often done is to have two thresholds. You reject at the higher level and anything over the lower level is filed into a spam folder or marked as spam. 5.0 is a sensible value for this.
