Chris, it SEEMS like manual training works best. I turned off auto-training
and manually trained. It took about two days to acquire about 400 spams and
700 or 800 hams on my account. I used a simple minded rule to create a
~/mail/rawmbox in my home directory. Then I ripped through it with the old
"mail" program. The REAL filtered mail comes through a POP3 server on that
machine and I read it on this Winders box. (Hey, Linux is where a heart may
lie but Winders is where my income lies. So....{^_-})
It took some nose holding for about 2 hours total on those two days to get
.63 trained here and remarkably well behaved. Now I will take the rare
missive that sneaks through and manually find it, again with "mail", toss
it into the spam database, and retrain. That's about all of 2 minutes of
my time. I could probably get away with auto-train now. But then it would
be like inbreeding when its the messages that escape I want to use for
training. Of course, I may be all wet. I'm simply relating what has given
me most gratifying results.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm really new to SA and just upgraded last night to 2.63. I'm trying to
> get Bayes filtering setup. I have the following in my local.cf which is
> located in /etc/mail/spamassassin:
>
> # Enable Bayes auto-learning
> auto_learn 1
> bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes
>
> I took this from the spamassassin wiki for site wide Bayes filtering. The
> problem is, and maybe its not a problem, that my bayes_seen and bayes_toks
> files are in /home/chris/.spamassassin. Will they be read correctly from
> this directory since all my rule files are in /etc/mail/spamassassin? If
> not, what do I need in my local.cf file to put them in there and have them
> read?
