Thanks Martin - anyone have any thoughts on the matter (particularly the headers issue)?
Proportionately the amount of spam that slips through it minute, so I'm really not sure if I should be running sa-learn on the few that do, or just put it down to the fact that something will always slip through? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Radford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 August 2003 15:04 > To: Paul Hutchings > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn on mbox files exported from Exchange? > > > At Sat Aug 16 14:23:34 2003, Paul Hutchings wrote: > > > At present each message in the mbox file has all the > headers listed, and all > > the spamassassin headers that were added when it first > passed through - I'm > > cautious that I might be doing something dumb and training > it that my own > > mail server sends spam etc.. > > sa-learn will strip off SA's markup automatically, so you don't need > to worry about that. > > However, the Bayesian functionality works best when it's trained on > broadly similar quantities of spam and ham. If all that mail has come > via your mail server, then the Bayesian code should work out that the > headers added by your server is not usable as a ham/spam discriminant > (and hence won't use it). > > At least, that's my understanding. > > Martin > -- > Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important > stuff -o) > Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the > world /\\ > - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus > Torvalds _\_V > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
