[ILUG] Spamassassin + Bayes

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 13 September 2004 15:31, Des Keane wrote:

> > DEFAULT SCORES (local, net, with bayes, with bayes+net).
> >
> > My question is: what do these 4 numbers mean?
> > What exactly is "net"?
>
> AFAIK,
> local = tests you've carried out locally (e.g. header and body scans
> against regular expression rules) net = primarily DNS based realtime
> blackhole lists & URL blacklists, also Razor online database etc. bayes =
> bayesian learning database
>
> They're separate because the different scores are taken into account for
> different purposes, e.g. auto-whitelisting vs scoring.

Thanks for the info - but which is used for scoring?

None of the options seem to add up to the scores I get.

Incidentally, HTML_MESSAGE does not seem to be listed in
<http://spamassassin.org/tests.html>
though it comes up in my email's X-Spam-Status header.

Incidentally, this is on a remote system,
and I do not have the option to go to a more recent version of spamassassin,
as you suggested.
But I'm using the same version (2.63) on my laptop,
and for some reason it is performing far better.


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