How to do Bayes

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:55:38PM -0500, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> I got this:
> debug: using "/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf" for default
> rules debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
> debug: using "/root/.spamassassin" for user state dir
> debug: using "/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user prefs file
> /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_toks
> /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_seen
> debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2
> debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 102 spam(s) in Bayes DB <
> 200

This means your bayes database has only learned 102 spams. It needs to
learn a minimum of 200 spams and 200 hams (at the default settings)
before spamassassin will use bayes to score.

You can manually train it with sa-learn.

-Eric Rz.

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