As for the original question of how long, I can't really answer that. It depends on the amount of email recieved and how often emails reach the ham and spam thresholds. It seems to me that it took my install (filtering for about 400 email addresses) about two weeks before Bayes kicked in, but that's a guess based on my vague recollections.
The process can be speeded up by feeding a publically available corpus.
William Stearns wrote:
Good afternoon, Christopher,
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Christopher Jett wrote:
If I do not manually train the bayes sytem on SA 2.63, how long does it take
for the auto learn feature to start kicking in and bayes scores to start
showing up? I am running SA on a server-wide basis hosting multiple
I'm not sure of the answer, but I believe it lies somewhere between "It won't at all" and "It'll take a long time". I think it's the former; bayes _needs_ to be have known ham and spam phrases in order to make any kind of useful guess on new mail.
domains, so manually training is somewhat problematic at the moment.
http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting
Cheers, - Bill
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