rojo

Hello, Using Spam Assassin I set my "required_score" to 1 (also tried 1.0), but any changes I make to this field seem to have no effect. I took a look at the user_prefs in my .spamassassin folder and it indicates the following: required_score 1.0 yet I am still getting spam indicating the following in my emails: Content analysis details: (12.3 points, 5.0 required) It is still indicating 5.0 which was my original setting and no matter what I change it to in spam assassin it still comes back as 5.0. Should this not be a 1.0??? My version of spam assassing is as follows: Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server63.totalchoicehosting.com Thanks for your help. John

Thanks for the reply Bruce, and thank you for the welcome. After setting Spam Assassin back to the recommended setting I found out it was working, it is just that it was not tagging many emails as Spam, and that is with a setting of 5. Trying to consider my alternatives here, one is to enhance the blacklist addresses which would be a never ending job as these spammers keep changing their addresses, second would be to try increasing the amount of spam caught by lowering the total hits to a 3 or a 4. More good emails may be tagged, but I can always whitelist them. I have it all going to a SPAM mailbox on my PC so I can monitor it all. How does Spam Assassin "learn" what to tag and what not to? Is it from the blacklist/whitelist I set up? Currently it lets a lot through. Thanks for the help. John

Hello, I read the instructions provided by TCH regarding the setup of Spam Assassin. I utilized the configuration provided by TCH-Bruce and Scooter B at http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id212.htm. One thing I am assuming that needs to be done is to set "rewrite_subject" to "1" so that the subject line will be rewritten as "***SPAM***" so that the email filter you set up in your email program can filter on it. Based on the setup instructions as they are on the site I have been unable to get the spam filtered properly, even though it is clearly marked as spam by Spam Assassin. I see no ***SPAM*** anywhere in the email. Just recently I set up "rewrite_subject" to "1" to see if that works. If I am correct in my interpetation, then it might be good to update the onsite instructions, if I am wrong, then OOPs I need help. Thanks very much. John