Help with bayes administration/setup

[Scott Silva]

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Chris W. Parker spake the following on 10/20/2005 4:27 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> I've always been confused about bayes* but now that I've got all new
> software installed I want to start using it. I think it's already
> "running" because I did some investigating and found the following:
> 
> [root at filter /etc/mail]# all /root/.spamassassin/bayes*
> -rw-rw----  1 root root   54840 Oct 20 16:10
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal
> -rw----rw-  1 root root      30 Oct 20 16:10
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes.mutex
> -rw-rw----  1 root root  163840 Oct 20 16:10
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
> -rw-rw----  1 root root 2633728 Oct 20 16:10
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
> 
> So it looks like SOMETHING is happening with bayes otherwise I'd assume
> those files would be 0 bytes (or near 0 bytes).
> 
> The problem is that I've set High Scoring Spam to be deleted
> automatically and although this has greatly reduced the number of spams
> that reach my Inbox (that are also tagged as spam by MailScanner) there
> are still an almost equal number of emails that make it through (that
> are not tagged as spam by MailScanner).
> 
> Locally I've got an Outlook bayes plugin installed called SpamBayes and
> it manages to catch everything that MailScanner doesn't. I'm hoping that
> the bayes on MailScanner itself will be just as effective.
> 
> I've never fed the bayes db on my MailScanner box any ham or spam, it's
> just been using the emails that have reached it in the last 4 days to
> build its database.
> 
> I searched the MS Wiki but didn't find any relevant articles.
> 
> What do I need to do to make it more effective?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris.
> 
> * Not about how it works but how to set it up properly on MailScanner.
> 
Buying the MailScanner Book is the best way, but for now you can look at
Fortress Systems website http://www.fsl.com/support.html
Steve Swaney has a very complete set of docs and starter bayes databases.
He has been doing corporate installs for some time.


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