From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pablo Allietti wrote:
hi all i recently install spamassassin in freebsd but i can't find
the file that contain the scores i need to chage for example
NO_RDNS rule to give 3.0 but i can't find the file
0.5 NO_RDNS Sending MTA has no reverse DNS (Postfix
variant)
0.8 BR_REMOVER_QUOTE BODY: Inclui texto para remover email
(quote)
0.1 TW_LB BODY: Odd Letter Triples with LB
0.6 J_CHICKENPOX_42 BODY: 4alpha-pock-2alpha
0.6 J_CHICKENPOX_33 BODY: 3alpha-pock-3alpha
0.6 J_CHICKENPOX_62 BODY: 6alpha-pock-2alpha
2.0 BR_SPAMMER_URI URI: Texto suspeito
2.6 NO_DNS_FOR_FROM DNS: Envelope sender has no MX or A DNS
records
0.5 MIME_BAD_LINEBREAK Message body with fishy line breaks
-1.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto
white-list
The file that has scores for the default rules is
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf.
However, you do not want to make changes to that file, because they
will be overwritten every time you upgrade.
Instead, put your changes in your local.cf file. This file is read
after the default rule files and will override the default rule and
score definitions.
for your example, just add this line to your local.cf file:
score NO_RDNS 3.0
Also, you should always be careful when creating high-scoring rules.
Frequently, rules that sound like really good spam-sign turn out to
have lots of false positives in practice. Since NO_RNDS has a default
score of just 0.5, I would suspect that this might be the case here as
well. So if you make this change, be sure to keep a close eye out for
false positives.
Actually for that specific rule the 3.05 rules give something like:
score NO_DNS_FOR_FROM 0 1.1 0 1.6
That suggests it's a useless rule in some circumstances. A blanket 3.0
may not be at all a good idea. It also hints he has doctored the rule
sets already and should remember where it was doctored the last time.
(Of course, the scores all morph with updates so perhaps he has not made
any changes to some other version's install.)
{^_-}
