> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:29 PM
> To: jdow
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )
> 
> 
> jdow wrote:
> > From: "Mike Sassaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> >> The default local.cf was very minimal, during 
> troubleshooting I added
> >> some
> >> things trying to get improvements.  This is my current
> >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: 
> >> required_score 5
> >> rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM*****
> >> use_razor2 1
> >> razor_config /etc/mail/spamassassin/.razor/razor-agent.conf
> >> razor_timeout 600
> >> # report_safe 1
> >> # trusted_networks 212.17.35.
> >> # lock_method flock
> >> use_bayes 1 use_bayes_rules 1 bayes_path
> >> /home/_vilter/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_auto_learn 1
> >> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 6
> >> skip_rbl_checks 0
> >> rbl_timeout 600
> >> use_auto_whitelist 0
> >> score ALL_TRUSTED 0 0 0 0
> > 
> > 
> > That bottom line is a severe problem, Mike. It will disable a lot of
> > very helpful tools and rules within SA. Your bayes_*_autolearn
> > thresholds need to be widened out. RBL checks are 
> effectively disabled
> > by your ALL_TRUSTED score.
> 
> That's not really true J.. zeroing out ALL_TRUSTED doesn't 
> really affect the
> RBLs at all.
> 
> However, zeroing out ALL_TRUSTED is covering up the fact that his
> trusted/internal networks are all screwed up with over-trust.
> 
> Having a screwed up internal networks will make the RBLs fail 
> to match when they
> should. SA doesn't check "internal" hosts against the RBLs.
> 
> The mail which hits ALL_TRUSTED will have a matching 
> internal_networks setting
> by default, which means no hosts will be checked against the 
> RBLs for these
> messages.
> 
> So, by zeroing out ALL_TRUSTED, he's not really disabling his 
> RBLs, but  Mike is
> covering up the symptoms that are pointing out his RBLs are 
> being disabled.

Ok, I've removed the ALL_TRUSTED 0 line.  

So if you're saying my trusted_networks are broken, then, reading from the
man page.... if I add the lines:

clear_trusted_networks
clear_internal_networks
trusted_networks x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is my own ip address)

...will that conceivably help me?  


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