Re: [SLUG] spamassassin vs pine

From: Mike Branda (realraccoon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 18:19:37 EST


On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:00 -0500, 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.
> >
>
> Eben,
>
> Can you post your local.cf and your user_prefs from the etc spamassassin
> dir? (In SuSE /etc/mail/spamassassin)
>
> Did you run spamassassin -D --lint? There should be some sections
> referring to bayes (debug: bayes:)
>
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.

Oh, user_prefs is in your home dir too depending on your setup by the
way.

Mike

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