At one time I had asked around what others were using for their max files.  If I remember correctly, Fritz responded to me that he had his set @ 3000, and considering his organization is about the same size as mine, I went ahead and set it at that.  For some reason later on, I decided to up it to 30k.

 

Seems to me, if you have too many, thus stale entries for the current trend in spam, or too few, thus not a broad enough selection of words/samples to get an accurate account of all current spam, then your bayes filter is going to be much less accurate.  If you have too large of a setting for how much mail you process per day, then obviously it is going to take longer to refresh it then a site that gets 10x the amount of daily mail.

 

I knocked it back down to 3000 and deleted all old entries until there were that many left in spam/notspam, and am going to watch the results as emails are reported to the email interface.

 

There has to be a general guideline for ratios to best feed the bayes filter.  Such as “10k mail per day, set to 3max files, 15k per day 3500”, etc etc.  Has anyone taken the time to test this?  Perhaps if people chipped in their configs that have been extremely accurate for them, and their daily/weekly stats, then we could build listing for documentation and come to a consensus of the best place to start for settings.

 

I considered tweaking mine up and down once a month and seeing how that goes, but that would take me months and months to tweak out, and would only produce the ‘best’ config for my volume of mail.

 

-Paul

 

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