[Mimedefang] DNS Lookups in MD - Was RBL and DNS lookups

[Jeff Rife]

On 15 May 2007 at 11:31, Cormack, Ken wrote:

> By unnecessarily raising the threshold, and creating super-rules to then hit
> that mark, you render the stock rulesets far less successful at flagging
> spam.  It would seem pointless to run any of the stock rulesets, if they
> don't stand a chance at scoring at-or-above the high threshold, without help
> from the super-rules.
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking this?

No, that's exactly how SA is designed.  No one rule can ever mark a 
message as spam (using the default scores).  And, if a lot of rules 
hit, your confidence level goes way up about it being spam.


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