On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:56:43PM -0600, Steve Bondy wrote:For example, the default score in 2.6.x for BAYES_90 is either 2.454 or 2.101. If that's the only rule you hit, and your threshold is above those numbers, it will come through.
But what if you repeatedly learn the message(s) in question as spam? Shouldn't bayes start to give it higher scores? If it becomes a near perfect match, it should get a bayes_99, right?
true, but by default BAYES_99 alone still won't mark a message as spam. the default BAYES_99 score is either 4.07 or 1.886, and the default for spam is 5.0.
also bayes won't learn the *exact* same message repeatedly. if it's already seen a message it won't process it at all. i'm not sure if it works off the message-id or a hash of the message content.
i set BAYES_99 to a very high score for my personal setup, because i have never seen a legit message yet that triggered that rule.
-jsd-
