RE: Bayesian filtering is driving me nuts.

I picked 1 for ham because I didn't get many and bayes won't kick-in until you have the minimum number of spam AND ham. I disabled auto learn because I had no control over the messages being added. I find the odd high scoring ham and didn't want these auto learned as spam.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: John Sievert [mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:41 PM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bayesian filtering is driving me nuts.

Thanks Dan, I'll give this a try. Some stuff in here I didn't think of.

Question:

The min ham and spam numbers. Why did you pick these? Also, why not auto learn?

I'm hopeful this will really help with the spam detection. I use SpamSieve on my laptop and it has been hugely successful using the same technology.

J

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." - Dave Barry

John Sievert
Customer 1st, Inc.
2950 Metro Drive, Suite 101
Mpls, MN 55425

952.851.7901 office
952.851.7907 fax
On Jun 24, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Dan Tappin wrote:

It's ugly I agree.

Here is my SA config:

make a directory '.spamassassin' in /var/spool/post.office

drwxr-x--- 5 mta mail 170 Jun 24 15:02 .spamassassin

Edit your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:

## Misc

use_bayes 1
bayes_file_mode 0777
bayes_path /var/spool/post.office/.spamassassin/bayes
bayes_auto_expire 1
bayes_learn_to_journal 0
bayes_auto_learn 0
bayes_min_ham_num 1
bayes_min_spam_num 200

Ensure that your SA start-up script uses the '-u mta' option which runs SA as the same user as PO.

This set-up was the only way I have ever made it work properly. SA seems to pick a different location each time for the bayes
location unless you force / trick it.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: John Sievert [mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:23 PM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Bayesian filtering is driving me nuts.

I think I can improve my filtering big time with the Bayesian filtering for spamassassin. but i can't make it work. Here is what i
get from the log

Jun 24 14:48:38 mail spamd[2587]: debug: auto-learning failed: lock: 2587 cannot create tmp lockfile
/private/var/root/.spamassassin/.lock.mail.customer1st.com.2587 for /private/var/root/.spamassassin/.lock: Permission denied

I have run spamd as root. i have changed the permissions on the dir so that it is rw everywhere but still the same problem.

any suggestions?

J

--
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.

John Sievert
Customer 1st, Inc.
2950 Metro Drive, Suite 101
Minneapolis, MN 55425
(952) 851-7901

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