On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Nels Lindquist wrote: > AFAIK, if the MIMEDefang header has being added, then milter > processing has taken place. Why are you feeding SA's public corpus > through? If it's for Bayes training, it'd be better to use sa-learn > on the commandline. If you're just trying to verify spamassassin is > working, try using the GTUBE test.
It's clear that spamassassin is working - I'm trying to figure out why it's not working as expected ;> I fed a test of locally composed mail with both spam and ham in it to the MimeDefang/Spamassassin combo, and was really annoyed to find that -Mozilla- [via which I'm dealing with the test mail] has a better hit rate than spamassassin. This is doubly annoying because in other implementations, I've had very good hit rates with spamassassisn. > > I've got the filter timeouts set fairly high: > > > > T=C:5m;S:5m;R:5m;E:5m > > Indeed; the MIMEDefang recommended settings are T=S:60s;R:60s;E:5m. > Are you seeing any log messages which lead you to believe the filter > is timing out? Are you feeding messages through fast enough to > exhaust the maximum available mimedefang slaves? I was doing both for a while. It seems that 500 messages in a minute is enough to cause the combo to choke badly. 1 message every second also has poor results with the stock timeouts. > Okay, so some of the messages *are* marked? In that case, why not > add a header which includes the SA tests which were triggered by the > message, regardless of its spam status? Then you can figure out why > a particular message isn't marked as spam. Hrm. Doing that shows that the messages just aren't being picked up as spam, due to a low value. Interestingly enough, it looks as though [at least this message] isn't being picked up by any of the spamassassin versions that I have handy. Hrm. How annoying. Time to go muck with spamassassin rules, I suppose. cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
