when is Bayes scoring used?

[Julian Field]

At 02:01 07/05/2003, you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>
> > If you are counting on SpamAssassin to "auto-learn", rather than manually
> > feeding messages through it, then it only uses messages with very high or
> > low scores.  The defaults are
> >
> > auto_learn_threshold_nonspam  -2.0
> > auto_learn_threshold_spam  15.0
> >
> > I imagine that 200 spams with scores greater than 15 will accumulate fairly
> > quickly, but I don't see many messages with scores less than negative
> > two, so how will it ever auto-learn any ham?  Even messages internal to
> > my network score zero.  I'm thinking about changing the default to positive
> > one or thereabouts.
> > --
> > Mark W. Nienberg, SE
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> > 1906 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA  94704
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>
>Where are those threshold lines added if I want to change them so that
>they take affect with MailScanner?  Do you put them into
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf?

Yes.
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