when is bayes scoring used?

[Julian Field]

At 14:18 06/05/2003, you wrote:
>Well i have just setup mailscanner 4.20-3 and i have some problemes
>with bayes "scoring".
>
>I have the bayes database working as it s modified each time i receive
>a mail but when i gor spam i never seen BAYES_DB tag in the scoring of
>spam.
>Is there a minim size of the bayes database in order to be uzed for
>scoring?

It won't start using the results of the Bayes data until 200 messages have
been scanned. The bayes_msgcount file will tell you how many it has scanned
(file size == number of messages).


>Thanks in advance for any help
>
>P.S
>the command
>check_bayes_db -db /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes | head -8
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: db format = on-the-fly
>probs,
>expiry, scan-counting
>0.000        0       16        0  non-token data: nspam
>0.000        0     1233        0  non-token data: nham
>0.000        0    51394        0  non-token data: ntokens
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: oldest age
>0.000        0     1382        0  non-token data: current scan-count
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: last expiry scan-count
>0.027        0        8      801  english
>
>
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>Eric Doutreleau
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