FWIW, I've done the same as Fraser, scoring Razor at 5, primarily because I trust it.
I used to automatically drop Razor scored mail into the bitbucket, but noticed, pre-current Razor version, I was getting more FPs than I used to...so now, I verify them, first...but I still score them that way. On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Fraser Morrison wrote: > Matt, > > We are using version 2.6.3. I have pasted our local.cf file below: > > # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. > # > # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be > # tweaked. > # > ########################################################################### > # > # rewrite_subject 0 > # report_safe 1 > # trusted_networks 212.17.35. > required_hits 5 > score RAZOR2_CHECK 5 > ok_languages en fr > ok_locales en fr > > > Fraser > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:56:34 -0400 > To: "Fraser Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Razor-users] Hotmail & Yahoo Footers > > Might I ask what version of SA you're using? What does your local.cf look= > like? > > No version of SA that I'm aware of has a default score of 5.0 for=20 > RAZOR2_CHECK, and 5.0 is definitely way too high. > > The default scores of a few versions: > 2.63: > score RAZOR2_CHECK 0 0.899 0 1.047 > > 3.0-pre1 and 3.0-pre2: > score RAZOR2_CHECK 0 0.753 0 0.626 > > None of these even begins to approach 5.0 > > > At 08:40 AM 8/4/2004, Fraser Morrison wrote: > >I am new to Linux and Spam Assassin so please bear with me. We have Spam=20 > >Assassin installed and working well with the exception of how it handles=20 > >Hotmail and Yahoo messages. From what I can tell it is automatically=20 > >tagging all messages from these two sources as spam. I have noticed as=20 > >shown below that the RAZOR2_CHECK has given the message 5 points. The=20 > >limit I have setup for being tagged is 5 points. The header below is from= > =20 > >a legitimate mesSeptember would like it to have gotten through fine=20 > >without being tagged. > > > >***** > >X-Spam-Score: 6.1 (++++++) > >X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system=20 > >"apsea.ednet.ns.ca", has dentified this incoming email as possible=20 > >spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it=20 > >(if it isn't spam) or block similar future email. If you have any=20 > >questions, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. > > Content preview: --0-179324564-1082401212=3D:98964 Content-Type: > > text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos:=20 > > High-quality > > 4x6 digital prints for 25=A2 --0-179324564-1082401212=3D:98964 > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii [...] > > Content analysis details: (6.1 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > > ---- ----------------------=20 > > -------------------------------------------------- > > 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message > > 0.5 HTML_20_30 BODY: Message is 20% to 30% HTML > > 0.6 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_11_50 BODY: Razor2 gives confidence between= > =20 > > 11 and 50 > > [cf: 20] > > 5.0 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/) > > 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS > > [142.166.250.74 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] > > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Razor-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users > > > End of Razor-users Digest > > Fraser Morrison > LAN Administrator/Adaptive Specialist > Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority > 5940 South Street > Halifax Nova Scotia > Canada > B3H 1S6 > > Phone: (902)-424-2172 > Fax: (902)-424-6421 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.apsea.ca > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on > Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, > one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology > Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com > _______________________________________________ > Razor-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users