MS % rate of catch

Pete pete at eatathome.com.au
Mon Apr 5 23:34:11 IST 2004


Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 06:20 PM 4/5/2004, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>
>> Most likely not DNSBLs because I don't know what that is.  I'm guessing
>> dns black list where it goes to web sites and checks to see if its spam,
>> and not bayes.  I see all these messages come through the list about
>> bayes but I still don't understand it.
>>
>> Is this DNSBLs in the mailscanner.conf?
>> Spam List = ORDB-RBL spamcop.net .... and so on.
>
>
> Well that is a way of calling a DNSBL (DNS blacklist), but I was speaking
> of DNSBLs in SA.. you need to install the Net::DNS perl module for
> them to
> go. They show up as rule hits named RCVD_IN_SORBS, RCVD_IN_OPM, etc.
>
> As for bayes, it's a trained statistical analysis system. You feed it
> training using sa-learn, and it latter applies those lessons to inbound
> email. shows up as rule hits such as BAYES_10 and BAYES_99. Requires the
> DB_File perl module in SA 2.6*.
>
>
>
Do the same set of tests with ise_bayes 0 and see if you get same results

Bayes can become poisoned and give those kind of results, it did to me
and i stopped uing it,.



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