Carlos E. R. wrote:
SA should be perfectly capable of picking a lot of spam without using bayes.
It should... but, for example in my case, it doesn't. There are may spam emails I get that are not tagged by any other rule except bayes: I had to increase the scoring so that a 99% mark by the bayes filter gives 5 points. On the other hand, I'm getting more false positives than a few months back (and not by the bayes filter); some of those emails are also examined by a commercial filter of the mail server, and that one gives a correct score.
Interesting. I'm using spamassassin (amongst others) to provide a service for our customers, and I'm not currently using bayes. The hit-rate for SA is still very good - in the 95-98% range.
I don't like how SA is scoring spam recently...
I have changed some of the scores, but usually to a lower level. And I'm still using 2.64, not the 3.x series. /Per Jessen, Zürich