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I am a unix user and a particular sender's e-mail frequently seems to get incorrectly tagged as Spam.

You can put that sender's e-mail in your whitelist. In doing so, you are telling spamassassin that these e-mails are OK. Edit your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file with lines like these:

       whitelist_from          myfriend@yahoo.com
       whitelist_from          *@nrao.org

I am a unix user and spamassassin tags far too many of my valid e-mail as spam.

You can turn down the sensitivity of spamassassin by playing with the "required_hits" variable. This will also have the effect of catching fewer real SPAMS. The default value of this variable is 6 as seen in the header line:

	X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=27.9 required=6.0

Edit your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file and add a line like this:

	 required_hits           8.0