Fixing Bayes

[Kevin Miller]

Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> I spent quite a bit of time searching the archives; there is a ton of
> stuff there.  I know the answer is there but I am just terrible at
> searching I guess.  Please entertain my basic question.
> 
> My bayes is causing a lot of false positives.  I am guessing that I
> need to rebuild my bayes database.  I do have:
> Rebuild Bayes Every = 432000
> Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes (was no until about 15 minutes ago
> when I found on the archive searching that this should be yes)
> 
> Here is what I did, let me know if this is what I needed to do.  I got
> the starter database from http://www.fsl.com/support.html and placed
> those files in /etc/MailScanner/bayes.
> 
> Is that all that I need to do?
> 
> Thank you

Assuming the permissions are correct that should pretty much do it.  The
starter kit will begin to learn as new ham/spam comes in.  It is based
on older spam, and your spam profile may not match fsl's, but it'll
learn fast.  Are you using MailWatch along with MailScanner?  There's
tools in there to monitor the health of your bayes database (as well as
other things).  

My bayes database was corrupted some time back and I replaced it with
the starter kit.  Immediately saw improvement in the spam catching...

...Kevin
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