bayes not sure of use

Philippe Delodder lodder at delodder.be
Thu Sep 14 16:33:46 IST 2006


Philippe Delodder wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Philippe Delodder wrote:
> >> I have actived bayes in the spam.assassin.prefs.conf, but I don't
> see it
> >> in the MailScanner-SpamCheck.
> >>
> >> Is this normal I use Mailscanner 4.55.10 with postfix 2.2.10 and
> >> spamassassin 3.0.6
> > The bayes database must have some training data to populate its
> > database of keywords and their probabilities.  It needs to see
> > some examples of spam messages and some examples of non-spam,
> > at least 200 of each.  Until it has enough training data,
> > it will not put a score on any message.
>
> > In the default configuration, training of the bayes database
> > happens automatically: messages with very low or high scores
> > (based on all the other rules) are fed to it.  So, you can
> > just wait for a while and eventually it should see enough ham
> > and enough spam messages to build up training data and should
> > start working on its own.
>
> > If you want to get it working sooner (or if you want to correct
> > mistakes it has made), you can train it with the "sa-learn"
> > command.
>
> > "sa-learn --dump magic" will tell you how many spam and
> > ham messages you've seen so far.  Look for the "nham" and
> > "nspam" rows in the output.
>
> >    - Logan
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> I have a large db of bayes:
> [root at dionysus ~]# sa-learn -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> --dump magic
> 0.000          0          3          0  non-token data: bayes db version
> 0.000          0       2037          0  non-token data: nspam
> 0.000          0       1150          0  non-token data: nham
> 0.000          0     273812          0  non-token data: ntokens
> 0.000          0 1051647943          0  non-token data: oldest atime
> 0.000          0 1158174730          0  non-token data: newest atime
> 0.000          0 1158199340          0  non-token data: last journal sync
> atime
> 0.000          0 1158166029          0  non-token data: last expiry atime
> 0.000          0          0          0  non-token data: last expire atime
> delta
> 0.000          0          0          0  non-token data: last expire
> reduction count
>
> And i still don't see it :( so i don't think this is the problem pls help
> me further
>
It was an permission issue it's solved now
-- 
Philippe Delodder
lodder at delodder.be
http://www.delodder.be


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