These settings differ from the ones above, in that they are considered'privileged'. Only users running spamassassin from their procmailrc's orforward files, or sysadmins editing a file in /etc/mail/spamassassin, canuse them. spamd users cannot use them in their user_prefs files, forsecurity and efficiency reasons, unless allow_user_rules is enabled (andthen, they may only add rules from below).
By default, each user has their own in their /.spamassassin directory withmode 0700/0600. For system-wide SpamAssassin use, you may want to reduce diskspace usage by sharing this across all users. However, Bayes appears to bemore effective with individual user databases.
iXhash can be used to block additional spam. This is similar to a fuzzy hash where certain parts of the email body are dropped and a md5 hash is generated. A dns lookup is done for this hash and a score can be given to the email. Mail.baby publishes common spam under a DNS list for iXhash and you are free to integrate this into your spam filtering. Please see for more information on setting up iXhash. Note: IXHASH must be installed into spamassassin before using the below config. Once set up use the following config:
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