>>> I suggest you set your non-spam auto-learn threshold to -0.01 to make >>> sure that spam that hits no rules is not accidentally learned as ham. > > tac> errr...what? who? where? how??? > > I use: >> auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -2 >> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -2 > I forget which version applies to 2.5x and which to 2.6x -- adapt to the > score you want to use as a threshold, and put it into your local config > file (eg: local.cf or whatever).
sorry, do you mean my local (to the account) config, or the config for SA on the server generally? > tac> Also, loooking at more headers - if they say "autolearn=no", does [..] > No, autolearn=no simply means the email didn't score high enough (as > spam) or low enough (as non-spam) to be auto-learned. It means auto-learn > is on, but the email message didn't qualify. gotchya, tnx!> >>> cp /dev/null $file >>> or >>> cat </dev/null >$file >>> are two methods I've used to empty files. > > tac> okay will do that - is there any advantage of one over the other > apart > tac> from less typing? ;) > > None that we can measure. LOL, fair nufff, just wondering why you use BOTH. >>> Looks good to me. I wouldn't cat them all into one file first, since > tac> okay, thanks m8. You cat them in your script though don't you? > > No. My commands are: >> sa-learn --spam --mbox sa.learn.spam # do the sa-learn >> ls -lF `pwd`/sa.learn.spam # record this file in my log >> cat sa.learn.spam >>~/mail/cw-spam/inbox # append to my corpus >> cat ~/mynull > sa.learn.spam # empty the mailbox Sorry, yes. What's this corpus file for? Also, I see you using yet another method of emptying the mailbox: cat ~/mynull > sa.learn.spam Any particular reason for using this one? >>> I run my scripts once an hour. > > tac> Blimey - do you get THAT much spam? ;) > > 7-8k spam a week, and will probably hit 9k around June. No wonder you run it so often ;) > I do not sa-learn the SA mailing lists, nor any other mail which contains > samples of spam, nor discussions of spam. Otherwise I sa-learn > everything. Thanks for that. Funnily enough, looking in my spambox, sa had been tagging certain posts from this list as SPAM because they containted samples of spam.....must add the list to my whitelist ;) > b) For simplicity of management, I dump spam from all three domains into > one spamtrap. It's easier for me then to sa-learn all of them, rather > than keep the already learned spam separate. good idea! You've been a great help Bob, many thanks. Tony
