Upgrade Autolearn problems

[Stephe Campbell]

Mr. Field:

Looks like a pretty good idea to me. Mail is flowing again after I deleted
my Bayes files.

Now that I've had experience with this and know a little about what I'm
thinking, will the new expiry (Rebuild Bayes Every) function in MS generally
take care of this?

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 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade Autolearn problems


> 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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