Upgrade Autolearn problems

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 4 22:28:10 GMT 2004


It's possible your Bayes database has been poisoned beyond recovery :-(
No ideas otherwise, I'm afraid.

At 21:54 04/02/2004, you wrote:
>Mr. Field,
>
>OK, my mistake. Total confusion here on my part.
>
>Thanks for the quick answer. Do you have any ideas though on why the list
>began catching a high bayes score. Do I need to "refresh" my Bayes files
>(relearn or something)? Almost everything is receiving high Bayesian
>probabilities. Seems like a SA problem, but I haven't changed that for a
>while.
>
>Thanks and sorry for the extra effort I caused.
>
>Steve Campbell
>campbell at cnpapers.com
>Charleston Newspapers
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Upgrade Autolearn problems
>
>
> > At 19:11 04/02/2004, you wrote:
> > >I upgraded to the latest greatest on Monday. I noticed the listing about
> > >having to whitelist this mailing list today and thought nothing of it, as
>I
> > >have always received the mailings from this list.
> > >
> > >I upgraded MailWatch today, and was watching the screen go by, and
>noticed
> > >that this list was flagged as spam. So I looked at the headers and sure
> > >enough, there is an "autolearn" component in the header. After going back
>to
> > >when the upgrade of MS took place and reviewing some of those headers,
>they
> > >too have "autolearn". Now I'm not getting any mail at all.
> > >
> > >I checked my MailScanner.conf and it has the following in it:
> > >
> > >SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
> >
> > Autolearn is related to the Bayes engine, it's nothing to do with
> > auto-whitelisting.
> >
> >
> > >So now I'm lost. And I also don't know if I'll ever hear from you again.
> > >
> > >Is there some new function in the new MS that turns this on, related to
> > >something else?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Steve Campbell
> > >campbell at cnpapers.com
> > >Charleston Newspapers
> >
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