Help!! URGENT!!

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Tue Mar 30 12:15:37 IST 2004


>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : kfliong [mailto:kfliong at WOFS.COM]
>Envoyé : 30 mars, 2004 02:32
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Help!! URGENT!!
>
>
>Yup, I have checked the mails and most of them became spam 
>because BAYES_99
>have a value of 5.90. That itself already make the email a 
>spam. Default
>spam score is 5.00.
>
>Anyway, does turning "use_bayes 1" meaning that spamassassin will
>automatically learn all the emails that go through 
>mailscanner?

set

bayes_auto_learn 0

This will turn off auto-learning.

I think you should investigate how come you get so many spams.  Sure you don't have Infinite-Monkeys in MailScanner.conf?

Ugo

>How can I
>switch on bayes and only make it learn from messages that I fed it?
>
>At 12:26 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:19 pm, Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> > Hopefully you don't have
>> >
>> > Infinite-Monkeys Anywhere in your MailScanner.conf files.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > Stephen Swaney
>>
>>This is an honest question: what has that got to do with 
>SpamAssassin's
>>Bayesian engine?  The original message was about rapidly growing bayes
>>database and BAYES_99 rules popping up in every message.  
>Does the bayesian
>>engine hook into RBL's somehow?
>>
>>I know about Razor and Pyzor providing "confidence" levels 
>for spam since SA
>>2.61 etc....but that's not anything to do with th *local* Bayesian
>>classifier.
>>
>>Just curious - have I missed something?
>>
>>James
>>--
>>Fortune cookies says:
>>"I'd love to go out with you, but it's my parakeet's bowling night."
>
>thanks
>




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