I set up a spamd for testing about a week ago and would like to fine-tune it now. Especially, I want to get rid of unnecessary network tests. Currently, it uses dns bls as with the default config, no checksum tests like razor and dcc. Looking at the scores in 50_scores.cf and taking them of some sort of "proof" shows that only a few dns bl tests really give good clues about spam, but the checksum tests show quite high scores (and I interpret this as them being correct in most cases). Going from that I would just stop (most) rbl checking and use a checksum test? But which one? A high score doesn't give any clue of how many checks actually were "successful" (did they find a spam message at all?). It doesn't help if a checksum system or bl system is correct all the time, but has too few data, so many checks simply will fail because it got no clue about the host or the message (yet).
So, my basic question probably is, is it worth it to use BL or checksum testing at all and if so, which ones? Also, how do I disable checks? The comment text in the scores.cf seems to imply that just setting to 0 disables the test. Does it really *disable* the test, so that it's not done at all or just stop it from scoring? Of course, it doesn't make sense to me to carry out a test but then discard it with a scoring of 0. Then I wouldn't carry it out in the first place. Thanks! Kai ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
