Very bad score spamassassin

[Martin Hepworth]

FYI
the "-p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf" hasn't been required for
quite a number of years as this file should be a symbolic link to
/etc/mail/spassassin/mailscanner.conf (of whereever the SA config files are)

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 17 November 2011 11:19, Joolee <mailscanner at joolee.nl> wrote:

> EXTRA NOTE: This will take very long the first time and Mailscanner can be
> configured to skip Spamassassin checks during this time or hold all E-mail
> until finished. If it's a company server, I recommend configuring
> Mailscanner to hold all E-mails during expiry and starting the task at
> friday evening. You can run it with "2>&1 > ~/expire.log &" at the end so
> it redirects all output to ~/expire.log and rund in the background. (you
> can end your SSH session) (Can someone check this code? I'm not very fluent
> in output redirection)
>
> You could also delete the whole Bayes DB and download a recent copy of
> someone that does run expiry every now and than :P
>
> It is perfectly normal for an E-mail to have a negative score, this just
> means that the E-mail is definitely not spam. If there are SPAM E-mails
> that are getting a negative score, you got a problem ;)
> A spamfilter aims to give all HAM a score as low as possible and all SPAM
> a score as high as possible. Alle E-mails that hover around the threshold
> score (usually 6) are unsure and should be checked manually.
>
>
> On 17 November 2011 12:01, Markus Nilsson <markus at markusoft.se> wrote:
>
>> Please reply to the previous mail to keep the thread!
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "eric le corre" <eric_le_corre at msn.com>
>> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> > Sent: torsdag, 17 nov 2011 11:31:33
>> > Subject: Re: Very bad score spamassassin
>> >
>> > Spamassassin configuration is in autolearning. So there has to be
>> > found in
>> > spam HAM.
>> >  Occasionally, I learn to SpamAssassin manually.
>> >
>> >  But this problem has been the case since I installed mailscanner.
>> >  Since the
>> > beginning I have negative cores.
>> >
>> >  Do I have to disable the AutoLearn, how?
>>
>> No you can keep autolearn, just make sure you manually train those that
>> fail!
>> >
>> >  how can your remove the old tokens?
>> >
>>
>> e.g. by running
>>
>> sa-learn --force-expire -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>
>> NOTE: This will remove lots of tokens from your Bayes DB, make sure you
>> have reviewed your settings in the config file first, and make a backup of
>> the bayes DB if you are unsure you want to do this!
>>
>> Specifically check your
>>
>> bayes_expiry_max_db_size
>>
>> setting
>>
>> /Markus
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