[tech] SpamAssassin

[Matt Johnston]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:48:57PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> I have the following lines in my .spamassassin/user_prefs file, yet
> SpamAssassin's threshold for marking a message as spam remains at 5.  Any
> ideas why?  (mooneye is running version 2.43)
> 
>   # How many hits before a mail is considered spam.
>   required_hits		2.6
> 
> I was filtering on the number of hits myself (using ~/.procmailrc), but I
> can't make use of the Whitelist feature if I do that.  E.g. the following
> line should ensure that messages from the address below are marked "No" in
> the X-Spam-Status line, even if the number of hits is greater than the
> threshold.
> 
>   whitelist_from        someone at somewhere.com

UCC's spamassassin doesn't look at ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs files, it is
too hasslesome and would load mooneye too much.

Matt