On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to `teach' SA to spam from ham in my mail system. > > I've made it thru two main learning sessions where I ran around 450 > msgs (each time) thru sa-learn spam/ham and yet SA is still incapable > of getting it right more than about 40 % or maybe less.
You say you've run 1100 messages through -- have at least 200 of those been ham? Bayes won't kick in until 200 *each* of spam and ham are trained. You can run "sa-learn --dump magic" to see how many of each it believes it has seen. If you've sa-learned enough of both types, is it possible you haven't enabled bayes scoring? Are the BAYES_* rules showing up at all in the score details for newly arrived messages fed through spamc?
