How to tell if SpamAssassin Bayasian filtering is working

Martin Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Sep 27 12:15:41 IST 2006


Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
> Hello Philip,
> 
> OK, so I now see that there are only about 127 hams.
> 
> I also have autolearn turned on.  Why isn't it picking up on the spams that it currently detects and adding them to the database?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> JBB
> 
> Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 12:50:30 PM, you wrote:
> 
> PZ> Run the --lint test to see how many ham and spam messages it has.
> PZ> Spamassassin needs to have at least 200 spam and 200 ham in bayes before it
> PZ> considers the bayes to be trained.  It ignores the bayes results until then.
> 
> PZ> Philip
> 
><snip>

> JBB
> ---
> Jonathan B. Bayer
> 
> mailto:jbayer at bayerfamily.net
> 

Before bayes will work it needs 200 spam AND 200 ham, or use a starter 
DB from www.fsl.com/support

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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