SA Bayes Questoin

[Julian Field]

All additional comments to the "guest book" most welcome.
And you might want to add this to the FAQ as well. It needs lots more
content, people...

At 21:22 25/04/2003, you wrote:
>Thanks so much for the quick response.
>-Nathan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 1:21 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: SA Bayes Questoin
>
>
>At 21:03 24/04/2003, you wrote:
> >I set up a test box with SpamAssassin 2.53 and the latest MailScanner
> >build. (I wanted to make sure I get all of the potential wrinkles
>worked
> >out before going live).
> >
> >I fired some spam messages through the test system. They do get scored
> >as spam by Spam Assassin, but the bayes databases have not been created
> >yet (bayes_msgcount, bayes_seen, and bayes_toks).
>
>You won't see the databases created until the first message is
>auto-learned. The auto-learning thresholds are (I think) -2 and +25. A
>message has to score outside that range in order to be auto-learned.
>Send
>it a message that is extremely spammy (scoring > 25) and all the files
>should spring into existence. It can take a while before your mail
>system
>gets one that spammy.
>
> >  At this point, I'm
> >just sticking with the default location of /root/.spamassassin/.
>
>That's fine. Keep an occasional eye on the free space in your root
>filesystem.
>
> >  Am I
> >falsely assuming that these databases should be created immediately
>with
> >the auto-learning functionality, after only processing a few spam
> >messages? Or does it take a much larger mass of email before these
> >databases are created and subsequently populated with information? I
> >assumed that the first processed spam message would be enough to at
> >least trigger the creation of the db files.
>
>The other fact to know is that the bayes databases won't actually be
>used
>to help score a message until 200 messages have been auto-learned.
>
>Basically, set it up, leave it chewing mail for a few days and come back
>to
>it, when you should find all the files have been created and it is
>merrily
>scoring messages.
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