Re: [SLUG] spamassassin vs pine

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 18:17:58 EST

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Mike Branda wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 12:01 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>
> > > [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? It doesn't appear to be learning (and I've been
> > running every spam through "sa-learn --spam" and every non-spam through
> > "sa-learn --ham"), as I plotted cumulative non-spam received (after manually
> > removing the spam and rubbing SA's nose in them), and its R^2 on a linear
> > best-fit line is 0.9864.
>
> Can you post your local.cf and your user_prefs from the etc spamassassin
> dir? (In SuSE /etc/mail/spamassassin)

Stock; I haven't modified it. (Maybe that's the problem?)

# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
#
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###########################################################################
#
# rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM*****
# report_safe 1
# trusted_networks 212.17.35.
# lock_method flock

> Did you run spamassassin -D --lint?

Lots of output.

> There should be some sections referring to bayes (debug: bayes:)

debug: bayes: 24691 tie-ing to DB file R/O /home/eben/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
debug: bayes: 24691 tie-ing to DB file R/O /home/eben/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
debug: bayes corpus size: nspam = 787, nham = 7777
debug: bayes token 'H*Ad:D*org' => 0.0110971454944889
debug: bayes token 'somewhat' => 0.0835362783803756
debug: bayes: score = 0.358256516621614
debug: bayes: 24691 untie-ing
debug: bayes: 24691 untie-ing db_toks
debug: bayes: 24691 untie-ing db_seen 

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        I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein 

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