Bayesian database not learning

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at woodmclaw.com
Tue Oct 10 15:16:38 IST 2006


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> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Douglas Ward
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:58 AM
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> Subject: Bayesian database not learning
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> I trained my bayesian database about four weeks ago with about 600 or
> so ham and spam messages.  Spamassassin should be autolearning based
> on the following defaults:
> 
> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1
> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 12.0
> 
> In the four weeks since I trained the database it does not look like
> it has learned anything.  When I run the sa-learn command the spam/ham
> count is the same as the day I trained it.  Are these defaults to
> high/low?  Should they be changed?
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Make sure that you are training and looking at the correct bayes
database.  See the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file for the bayes database
location.

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