Spam rating is not clear

[homeport]

To delete a spam email, if you lower the Spam rating from the default -200 to a value of -50, does this mean the email is more likely to be deleted quickly, or does it mean that the spam rating is more forgiving and will continue to appear until the rating builds to -200 for this particular email?

[Sidewinder]

Which Setting are you referring to?

[homeport]

Which Setting are you referring to?

Settings/Spam Tools/ "Auto delete if rating reaches:"

[Sidewinder]

To delete a spam email, if you lower the Spam rating from the default -200 to a value of -50, does this mean the email is more likely to be deleted quickly, or does it mean that the spam rating is more forgiving and will continue to appear until the rating builds to -200 for this particular email?

More email will be will be automatically deleted. Just be aware that MWP2010 only downloads a portion of the message depending on the number of lines that the Spam throttle is set for. If you auto delete a message and it goes to the recycle bin MWP can only restore the message fragment.

[stan_qaz]

I do not think it will be considered for deletion until all of the tools have had a chance to be run so I'd think it wouldn't go more quickly depending on the auto-delete point setting.

Setting the auto-delete too low can be a problem if you do not have Your Bayesian and Friend list completely up to speed. I don't use it myself since I really like to double-check the MW score before deleting a message.