when is bayes scoring used?

[Desai, Jason]

Also, one of the lines in the output of the command

sa-learn -D --rebuild

will let you know if you do not have enough ham or spam scanned.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:30 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] when is bayes scoring used?
>
>
> 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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