BAYES issues

Jay Chandler chandler.lists at chapman.edu
Thu Feb 15 15:07:59 CET 2007


Anthony Peacock wrote:
> This message got a BAYES_20 score.  Your SA is using Bayes correctly.
>
> Why don't you think it is working?

aconcagua# cat /var/log/maillog |grep BAYES
Feb 15 01:24:24 aconcagua MailScanner[57909]: Message A60174554E.EC45D 
from 65.54.246.232 (bf1997 at hotmail.fr) to chapman.edu is spam, 
SpamAssassin (not cached, score=8.308, required 6, SARE_BAYES_5x7 0.60, 
SARE_FRAUD_X3 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X4 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X5 1.67, 
SARE_FRAUD_X6 1.67, SARE_MILLIONSOF 0.32, SARE_URGBIZ 0.72)
Feb 15 05:44:29 aconcagua MailScanner[98220]: Message 55C7A455C4.48148 
from 146.142.40.232 (bounce-ximpim-351275 at list.bls.gov) to chapman.edu 
is not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=3.5, required 6, 
MANGLED_MEDS 2.30, SARE_BAYES_5x7 0.60, SARE_BAYES_6x7 0.60)
aconcagua#

This is for approximately ten thousand messages since six hours ago.

Do I need a Bayes rule that defines scores for each level?  I'm not sure 
I have one by default...

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