Re: [SLUG] spamassassin vs pine

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 16:14:44 EST


On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Eben King wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Eben King wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, steve szmidt wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:01, Eben King wrote:
> > > > I put Spamassassin on my machine to deal with the spam issue
> >
> > > > the two-week average of "% spams caught" has
> > > > gone from 38% two weeks ago to 44% now.
> >
> > > > What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't it be improving?
> > >
> > > You also need to tell it how good email (ham) looks like. It should be a 50 -
> > > 50 split when you train it.
> >
> > [eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mbox
> > Learned from 37 message(s) (63 message(s) examined).
> > [eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/linux
> > Learned from 537 message(s) (695 message(s) examined).
> > [eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/{bugtraq,sent-mail,sent-mail-nov-2005}
> > Learned from 421 message(s) (423 message(s) examined).
> >
> > Cool, I'll see how it acts now.
>
> OK, did that over 4 weeks ago (the middle of December). It's not better; in
> fact it's worse -- 4-week rolling average at 28% of spam caught, 1-week at
> 18%. Still no false positives, which I guess is a Good Thing. How do I see
> what SA thinks is going on?

Also, there's this file:

[eben@pc eben]$ ls -l .spamassassin/auto-whitelist
-rw------- 1 eben eben 328K Jan 14 15:43 .spamassassin/auto-whitelist

I haven't corresponded with _that_ many people. It shouldn't be
auto-whitelisting any addresses.

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