On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:01:08PM -0500, L. Clayton Parker wrote: > Is it normal to have to crank the required_hits setting up to 10 before > ordinary mail gets through? > > I just started using Spamassassin to filter a pop account on an ISP > connection. The ISP's spam software was stopping about 3,000 spams a > month, but another 3,000 or so were still getting through. > > I spent the day tweaking their settings and mine both. I am now down to > only a few dozen a day getting through from the ISP, but everything that > did get through was going straight to the spam folder unless it was > caught by another filter first. > > I had to put the filter that calls Spamassassin dead last in order to > let _anything_ through. I finally got one regular email through with > required_hits set to 10 and I only tried that after reading about > someone else's setting things too high on the list. > > Lee > > -- > L. Parker > chief cook, bottle washer and sometime sysadmin > cacaphony.net
What version of SA? Have you done any retraining using sa-learn? "man sa-learn" for more information. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.
