On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 22:41 -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> I have been running SA for about 6 months without out much trouble, having it 
> catch 98 or 99% of my spam (20-40 a day), but recently, I have run into some 
> problems with the Bayesian filters getting corrupted, and digging around for 
> some new rules, I adjusted my rules, and now all sorts of easy to catch spam 
> are not getting caught.

Is bayes still corrupted (or mis-taught)?  Could try deleting your bayes
DB and re-teaching a brand new one.  I've seen mistrained bayes DBs
cause BAYES_00 on obvious spam (giving ~a -5 score).


> 
> I am invoking SA (spamassassin-3.0.0-0.pre4.2.3mdk)  from Kmail, by passing 
> it 
> through spamc running rules_du_jour and my_rules_du_jour and using the rules: 
> SARE_RATWARE, SARE_BAYES_POISON_NXM, SARE_SPOOF, SARE_OEM, BOGUSVIRUS, 
> SARE_ADULT. Now, not only is this list getting a bit unweildly, taking about 
> a minute to process all uploads, but it is doing a crummy job of filtering.
> 
> My old list (trimmed default for rules_du_jour) seemed to run better with the 
> basic list, but all those seem to have been depreciated for the SARE stuff.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what SARE lists are truly working for them? Or 
> how I could use SA for better results with Kmail?
> 
> Rob
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