Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-08 Thread Jerry Gardner
Ken, I erased the DSPAM database, reconfigured it to toe/osb, and retrained. Now it's working much better. Spam hit rate is >90%. Thanks! > -- ___ Dspam-user mailing list Dspa

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-06 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:40:15AM -0700, Jerry Gardner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > > > > Yes, just delete them. You can look at /etc/dspam.conf to see where they > > are stored. > > > > Okay, thanks. I've saved all spam and non-spam I've received since

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-06 Thread Jerry Gardner
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > Yes, just delete them. You can look at /etc/dspam.conf to see where they > are stored. > Okay, thanks. I've saved all spam and non-spam I've received since I set this server up. Should I use it to train DSPAM before I change teft to to

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-06 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:06:11AM -0700, Jerry Gardner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > > Hi Jerry, > > > > First, I see that you have teft set as the training mode. Change that > > to toe, instead. Otherwise your accuracy can degrade over time. Second, > > yo

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-06 Thread Jerry Gardner
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > First, I see that you have teft set as the training mode. Change that > to toe, instead. Otherwise your accuracy can degrade over time. Second, > you are using the hash driver and the chain tokenizer, even though the > commen

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-02 Thread Jerry Gardner
Yes. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:14 PM, David A. Desrosiers < david.a.desrosi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/2/16 3:44 PM, Jerry Gardner wrote: > > What can I do to help DSPAM learn faster so I can cut down all of the > > spam I have to manually deal with each day? > > Did you feed it the initial corpu

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-02 Thread Kenneth Marshall
Hi Jerry, First, I see that you have teft set as the training mode. Change that to toe, instead. Otherwise your accuracy can degrade over time. Second, you are using the hash driver and the chain tokenizer, even though the comments in the config file recommends osb instead. Make those two changes

Re: [Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
On 9/2/16 3:44 PM, Jerry Gardner wrote: > What can I do to help DSPAM learn faster so I can cut down all of the > spam I have to manually deal with each day? Did you feed it the initial corpus to train it with both ham and spam?

[Dspam-user] DSPAM Not Working Very Effectively

2016-09-02 Thread Jerry Gardner
I set up a new mail server about four months ago with DSPAM as the spam filter. While it is filtering out some spam, it completely misses most of it. I trained it for the first 2500 emails, but it doesn't seem to be getting any better at filtering after that. I regularly retrain any false negatives