when is Bayes scoring used?

[Desai, Jason]

I think you need 200 spam and 200 ham.  Try running spamassassin with the -D
switch for debug and see what it says about bayes.  Also, you can run the
check_bayes_db command and see how many spam and ham have been learned.  And
you can run "sa-learn -D --rebuild" and see if it says anything about there
not being enough spam or ham.  These may give you some clues to your
questions.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Dene Ulmschneider [mailto:dene at DATATECHIE.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:53 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] when is Bayes scoring used?


Hey Julian et all-

In regards to all of the messages I have read that Bayes will not start
working until the magic number of 200 messages is reached, I am certain that
I have processed more than 200 messages and yet I still see no "Bayes"
entries in the headers.

I have checked the files in /root/.spamassassin and found the following:

filename                size            date modified
auto-whitelist          644.0 kb        today
auto-whitelist.db       12.0 kb         3.28.03
bayes_msgcount  3.2 kb          today
bayes_seen              1.3 mb          today
bayes_seen.db           4.0 kb          3.28.03
bayes_toks              2.6 mb          today
bayes_toks.db           12.0 kb         3.28.03

while I was checking these files - I saw that a new file was created and
then deleted called auto-whitelist.lock, due to the fact that the system
starting processing mails at this time.

The questions that I have are:
1-according to previous statements about the size of bayes_msgcount, have I
only correctly processed 3 or 4 emails?
2-why are all of the .db files form a month and a half ago?
3-why are there still no headers containing anything regarding Bayes?

Am I missing something. I have had MailScanner running for about 2 months
now and am certain that I have processed enough emails.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank You

Dene Ulmschneider
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At 02:29 PM 5/6/2003 +0100, you wrote:


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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