How To Modify Default Spamassassin Scores

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by jonwatson, May 22, 2009.

  1. jonwatson

    jonwatson New Member

    Hi All,

    I am attempting to update some of the bayes scores in Spamassassin. The only obvious place that I have found to do this is in the /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf file.

    Within that file, I have modified several of the bayes_XX scores, most importantly the bayes_99 score. It had a default of 3.5 and I have made it 4.5.

    However, I am still receiving spam email that triggers the bayes_99 test but still has an overall score of 3.6.

    I understand that the email may have passed other tests that lowered its score, but there's nothing to indicate that in the headers so I am left wondering if my new bayes_99 score works or not.

    Is there some way to test the scoring system (GTUBE doesn't suite my needs) or, is there some other file in which I need to change my scores?

    Thanks

    Jon
     
  2. jonwatson

    jonwatson New Member

    Some more testing by changing the GTUBE score in the 50_scores.cf file shows that the changes are not being applied.

    Changing the GTUBE score to 500 does nothing. GTUBE emails are still assigned a score of 1000 for failing the GTUBE test.

    So, I guess the questiona are: what is the purpose of the 50_scores.cf file if it doesn't do anything and how to I get new scores to take affect?

    I know this is more of a Spamassassin question than ISPConfig, but thought I would ask here first since the SA crowd generally like to answer with "it depends on your configuration" and I figure the ISPConfig configuration is better understood here.

    Thanks

    Jon
     
  3. jonwatson

    jonwatson New Member

    Got it.

    Changes to scores have to be made in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

    I had read this, but understood that this was the right place to make changes so that they would survive and update. I thought that a changed to the 50_scores.cf file would suffice for testing, but it seems that no changes made to the 50_scores.cf file ever take effect.

    Have to wonder what it's purpose is...

    Thanks, me.
     

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