http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5497





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-06-06 19:11 -------
> Should I set bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam "back" to 0.1,
> remove the sa-update config files, disable my regular sa-updating,
> destroy my current bayes database and start over?

I don't think that the auto_learn_threshold should ever be blindly set to an
arbitrary number. I might even argue that we should not try to provide a default
value for the autolearn threshold.

You can look over a large sample of ham and spam to see what makes sense as
thresholds at your site. Without having to carefully verify every mail you
probably can come up with a pretty good number for a score below which you can
be pretty certain that you hardly ever see spam and another number for a score
above which you never see ham. Then use those numbers.

If the bug here is that an auto_learn_ham threshold of -1 makes no sense, then
the fix is to chabge the threshold to something that makes sense for your
installation, not elimnate sa_update.

On the other hand, if this problem appears after an sa-update, I really would
like to see what you can learn about the affect of the sa-updateed rules by
looking at the output of spamassassin -t as I mentioned in comment #11. There
could be something not quite right about some updated rule even if the overall
problem can be characterised as a bad auto_learn_ham threshold.





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