Michael, Thanks for the reply. Is it OK to turn on bayes_auto_learn without first training SA manually? My thinking is that the server might learn the wrong thing out of the gate which would be bad since it is difficult to see what is being tagged. Is that a misguided notion?
If SA learns what is spam/ham based on the spam/nonspam threshold from messages it's read on its own (no intervention from me), don't we encounter a chicken and egg problem? How do you keep the server from learning the wrong thing? Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Faurot Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Training SA when mail is not stored locally? In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm running an MD/SA gateway for a customer where mail is scanned, > tagged, and forwarded directly to their servers (nothing is stored > locally), but I need to train SpamAssassin and beef up its bayes db. > How do people typically gather ham and spam to train the box under these > conditions? Is it possible to do it without too much intervention on > the customer's part? Yes, just use the bayes_auto_learn option in SA. If there's a good amount of traffic going through the box, it should build up a corpus fairly quickly. You may also want to tweak bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam and bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam if you don't like the defaults. I wound up leaving bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam at its default but adjusted bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam to 8.0. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
