Re: [vps-mail] Bayesian AND BlackLists

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:42:23PM -0500, Jim Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure if Bayes is working or not; I didn't see a reduction in missed
> spam.

And you won't for a while. SA doesn't really kick in until several
hundred messages have been processed, preferably thousands.

> Here are my follow-up questions:
> 1. What do I put in here to have the Bayes filtered items separated from the
> other Spamassassin stuff?

To SA, there isn't a difference. Baysian filters are used to help
score the message.

> 2. Is there something else that I need to install (such as Bayes?) on the
> server in order for Bayes to work?

Not that I know of. It just starts working after a while.

> 3. Is there a site that I can read up on Bayes? I'm not clear how it works
> but I'm assuming it compares the email to a database of some sort. I don't
> know what the "auto learn" is but wouldn't mind 'teaching' it if that is
> worthwhile.

Start with 'man sa-learn'. It will tell you to divide your mail into
two bodies ("corpuses", I think, or maybe corpora. My latin is rusty.)
One you run through sa-learn --ham (be sure to use 'virtual' if this
is a VPS 1), the other through sa-learn --spam. Once trained, you'll
have an ever growing set of files in
~/usr/home/jimsmith/.spamassassin; don't delete these or you'll haves
to retrain.

Scott
-- 
Scott Wiersdorf
scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
======================================================================
This is <vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>       <http://www.perlcode.org/lists/>
======================================================================