Fw: bayes autolearn

[Soeren Gerlach]

I do have the same setup (two mail servers configured via MX as relays) and
I do the following with quite remarkable results:

 * Quanrantine "high score spam" messages
 * Collect them once a day from the two relays to another consolidation
server
 * There use the "sa-learn" from S.A.
 * Additionally I feed the mails back to the razor network
 * copy back the resulting database to the two relays (MailScanner must be
stopped while copying back because of file locks)

With now some 5.000+ Spam messages it increases the overall "yield" quite
good. The problem with autolearn that the "ham" portion of the mail is only
usefull one a single user basis (there're some articels about this issue on
the net) because of the often individual dictionaries a user's mail have,
while the spam portion on the other hand isn't.

regards,
Soeren Gerlach

----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn" <shawn at ADVANCEDMANAGED.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: bayes autolearn


> If your mailscanner installation is just a relay, with the email
> addresses not local, is it wise to use bayes with the db built only with
> autolearn?  Having outlook users use resend to a spam/notspam address is
> not an option.
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> Also are mailscanner whitelisted items still put thru spamassassin for
> autolearning?
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> Tia
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> shawn