{"id":655,"date":"2013-02-03T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2013-06-15T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T12:06:06","slug":"increasing-the-spam-score-for-a-particular-rule-using-spam-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/02\/2013\/increasing-the-spam-score-for-a-particular-rule-using-spam-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing the Spam Score for a Particular Rule Using Spam Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article will show you very briefly how to assign your own scores for Spam Assassin tests or simply influence the default rule set.<\/p>\n

I write this article because I know some hosting providers (such as Namecheap) provide Spam Assassin as an ‘out of the box’ anti-spam solution and I know that some of the cpanel menus that support Spam Assassin aren’t as intuitive or helpful as they could be to help guide this process.<\/p>\n

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  1. connect to your host using a file transfer client such as filezilla.<\/li>\n
  2. Browse to the following directory (your directory structure could well be different from the one I post here but it should be similar at least) \/home\/yourusername\/.spamassassin – this directory is above the www directory so if you don’t see this then you probably don’t have access.<\/li>\n
  3. Make a backup of user_prefs and call it something like user_prefs.bak<\/li>\n
  4. Edit the original user_prefs and add the lines below – the rules you want to edit along with the scores will probably be different.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    score\u00a0SUBJ_ALL_CAPS (5)<\/p>\n

    SUBJ_ALL_CAPS\u00a0is the test name which can be found in the official Spam Assassin wiki here<\/a>.
    \nIn this case, the number in brackets means that the spam score should be increased by 5 from the default. So if the default scoring for the test ‘SUBJ_ALL_CAPS’ was 1, it would now be 6.
    \nTo set your own definite score, simply remove the brackets so the rule looks like:<\/p>\n

    score\u00a0SUBJ_ALL_CAPS 5<\/p>\n

    This will set the score to 5 no matter what the default was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This article will show you very briefly how to assign your own scores for Spam Assassin tests or simply influence the default rule set. I write this article because I know some hosting providers (such as Namecheap) provide Spam Assassin as an ‘out of the box’ anti-spam solution and I know that some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,88],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-spam","tag-spam-assassin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1trTO-az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}