Bayes?

[Carl Boberg]

Grrreat!
Just two minor things:
I use the rpm version of MS and cant find a bin dir? (I can ofcourse create one).
I use the Perl CPAN install of spamassassin and cant find any sa-learn script?

When theese two are sorted out I will definately set up a config like the one you 
told me about.

Very Happy :-)
Thanks / Carl

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 15:57
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Bayes?
>
>
>At 14:51 21/03/2003, you wrote:
>>Just qurious about spamassassins bayes function in connection with MS.
>>Is MS utilizing the bayes function automatically
>
>Yes.
>
>>  or do you have to
>>configure something to make it work?
>
>No.
>
>>  If so what, and do you have to
>>run a "learning session" with it?
>
>No.
>
>>  That is, do you have to run some
>>definitly SPAM emails and some non SPAM emails through it?
>
>No.
>
>MailScanner is using the bayes function automatically. Uniquely, the bayes
>engine in SpamAssassin is "self-learning"; it uses the other rules to
>identify messages which have either a very high score or a very low score,
>and it continuously feeds them to the bayes engine itself without you
>needing to do anything.
>
>If you want to teach it when it gets it wrong, you can have it run the
>"sa-learn" script to learn about particular messages. I have set up 2
>addresses here, "spam" and "notspam". Their mailboxes live on the main
>MailScanner server, and people can just redirect wrongly-classified
>messages to one of the addresses. Then once an hour the script below is run
>by cron to teach the bayes engine about the messages it got wrong. For the
>script below, I have copied SpamAssassin's "sa-learn" script into the
>MailScanner bin directory.
>
>You should also run a nightly cron job that does a "sa-learn --rebuild" as
>well, to do all the housekeeping the Bayes engine requires.
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>SPAM=/var/mail/spam
>NOTSPAM=/var/mail/notspam
>
>LOGFILE=/var/log/learn.spam.log
>PREFS=/opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>SALEARN=/opt/MailScanner/bin/sa-learn
>
>date >> $LOGFILE
>if [ -f $SPAM ]; then
>   BOX=${SPAM}.processing
>   mv $SPAM $BOX
>   sleep 5 # Wait for writing current message to complete
>   $SALEARN --prefs-file=$PREFS --spam --mbox $BOX >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
>   rm -f $BOX
>fi
>
>if [ -f $NOTSPAM ]; then
>   BOX=${NOTSPAM}.processing
>   mv $NOTSPAM $BOX
>   sleep 5 # Wait for writing current message to complete
>   $SALEARN --prefs-file=$PREFS --ham --mbox $BOX >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
>   rm -f $BOX
>fi
>
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