Fixing Bayes

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:07 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Fixing Bayes
> 
> 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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Ok, looks like I got it.  I did have to reset the permissions.  I found
online a permission setting of:
Chmod -R 770 /etc/MailScanner/bayes

Before doing that the bayes in mailwatch would not show up.  After doing
the permissions ayes did show up.

Bayes Database Information 
Number of Spam Messages: 1,963 
Number of Ham Messages: 313 
Number of Tokens: 158,099 
Oldest Token: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:25:43 -0500 
Newest Token: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:39:54 -0500 
Last Journal Sync: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:37:00 -0500 
Last Expiry: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 
Last Expiry Reduction Count: 0 tokens

Indeed I am using mailwatch.

Thank you for your help.


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