Hello LuKreme, Saturday, August 21, 2004, 7:47:29 AM, you wrote:
>>> But I have had thousands of SPAMS. Apparently, I've only fed 20 of >>> them for sa-learn. I seem to recall that there is a flag to set for >>> Bayes to pick up on all Spam messages over a certain score. Have to >>> go and review again. >> from "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" >> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam n.nn (default: 12.0) L> Doesn't that seem unreasonably high? Doesn't a score of 9.0 have a L> 100% spam percentage? Also from Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf: > required_score n.nn (default: 5) > Set the score required before a mail is considered spam. n.nn can be an > integer or a real number. 5.0 is the default setting, and is quite > aggressive; it would be suitable for a single-user setup, but if you're > an ISP installing SpamAssassin, you should probably set the default to > be more conservative, like 8.0 or 10.0. Following these guidelines required_hits is set at 9.0 for all the domains I manage, and still we get a handful of false positives each year. IMO 12 is probably good for an auto-learn threshold, and I keep mine set at 15. Bob Menschel
