A little help with Bayes

Kearney, Rob RKearney at AZERTY.COM
Tue Aug 26 17:19:49 IST 2003


Anyone else have any ideas on this?   still getting the BAYES checking, and
its really screwing up our rate of false positives.

-rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Kearney, Rob [mailto:RKearney at AZERTY.COM]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:05 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: A little help with Bayes


I'm pretty sure its coming from my site.   I sent test emails internally
from the MailScanner box to an my email address, and the BAYES_nn headers
show up.

-rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Furnish, Trever G [mailto:TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:16 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: A little help with Bayes


Are you sure the spamscore header you're looking at is coming from your
site?  You can customize the name of that header in the MS config file...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kearney, Rob [mailto:RKearney at AZERTY.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: A little help with Bayes
>
>
> Doh..
> I did this.. however.. I just assumed that this would work..
> however, Im
> still getting BAYES tags in my mail..
>
> Any other suggestions?  delete the /root/.spamassassin folder..
>
> BTW.. if it make any diff. this server is an email gateway which just
> evaluates spam and passes the mail down to the next server.
>
>
>
> -rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:15 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: A little help with Bayes
>
>
> At 15:53 19/08/2003, you wrote:
> >Hrmm..  I upgraded to Mailscanner, actually SA to 2.55
> recently.  I have
> >never used sa-learn or any bayesian filtering. However, now
> I see lots of
> >email comming in with BAYES_xx tags. A lot of which are
> false positives.
> >How can I disable Bayes easily in SA through MailScanner.
> >
> >
> >-rob
>
> In your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file set
> use_bayes 0
> and restart MailScanner.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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