At 12:24 PM 8/18/2004, Jim Coulter wrote:
OK.  Tried the -tD.  There is says that my Bayes database only has 20 spams
in it.   (<200).

But I have had thousands of SPAMS.  Apparently, I've only fed 20 of them for
sa-learn.  I seem to recall that there is a flag to set for Bayes to pick up
on all Spam messages over a certain score.  Have to go and review again.

Autolearning is enabled by default, with a threshold of 12.0 I think... however be aware that the conditions are a bit more strict than they sound. It's not just the score alone.


score recomputed with bayes disabled (no self-feedback) including change of scoreset.
total recomputed score must be over threshold
must have 3.0 points of header-rule hits, regardless of threshold
must have 3.0 points of body-rule hits, regardless of threshold
message must not fall into strong ham-category in existing bayes learning (ie: don't contradict your existing knowledge)
oportunistic attempt to lock the bayes DB for write must succeed first try (ie: don't logjam the mail queue waiting to learn a message, if it's already locked by another process, skip the learn)



In general, autolearning is pretty rare, especially if you don't have any network-tests (RBLs, etc) to help boost up the non-bayes scores.




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