Re: is bayes working ?

[John Fleming]

If Bayes is working, you will see something about Bayes in the header.  Here are the pertinent headers from your message as received here:   X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on Luke X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,  RM_rb_BREAK,RM_rb_DIV,RM_rb_FONT,RM_rb_HTML autolearn=no version=2.63   The BAYES_00 means zero chances of your email being spam!   Just because you learn a message once doesn't mean it will be marked as spam next time.  It just means that the Bayes probability will be higher, and this will add to the total spam score.  Sometimes I get "marginal" spam that just misses the cutoff.  I keep learning those, and eventually they will tip over the line and start being caught.  It works great!     ----- Original Message ----- From: Wimpy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:59 AM Subject: is bayes working ? Hi all,           I have installed spamassassin in my linux machine and also bayes. To train it, as a user I ran the command   sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam /var/mail/spam_mail and sa-learn --showdots --mbox --ham /var/mail/nonspam_mail   also in my ~/.spamassassasin, in user_prefs, I have included use_bayes 1 bayes_min_ham_num       3 bayes_min_spam_num      3   and when I run the command sa-learn --dump, it shows the no. of nspams and also the scores assigned. But all the scores assigned is 0.5   but the problem is when I feed the same email, it doesnt mark it as spam .       How do I know whether bayes is working or not ?   Please help   have i missed anywhere ???