On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 05:13 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 21:40 -0500, Chris wrote: > > Since having to wipe my bayes db I've thought about going back to having > > 'auto-learn' setup for awhile. It's been so long since I did this I have > > a fairly dumb question. Do I need the two below lines to be set and if > > so is this the correct setting? Anything here about a score of 5 is > > considered spam. > > > > # bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1 > > # bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 12.0 > > Answering the direct questions first: Yes, that is correct syntax. No, > you don't need them (commented out), they are default. > > An auto-learning setup generally isn't a bad idea, and actually default. > Depending on your amount of messages, you might want to have a look at > the recent train-on-error option. > > If (since) there was any need to wipe your old Bayes DB and start fresh, > I seriously recommend continued manual training. And in any case, always > (manually) training spam with low-ish Bayes probability. Likewise for > ham that doesn't already have a very low Bayes probability. > > In non-high-volume environments, there's hardly any down-side on > training the extremes, too. Learning hand-confirmed non-extremes is > always worth it. > > > [1] > http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_AutoLearnThreshold.html > Thanks very much Karsten for the quick reply.
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