Norman Zhang wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: > >>> I noticed I needed to train Bayes with 200 SPAM/HAM before it >>> functions. Does SA function without Bayes? >> >> >> Yes, SpamAssassin can run without bayes. > > > For Bayes training, is 200 SPAM and 200 HAM or 200 all together?
200 of each. The choice of 200 is slightly arbitrary, but the basic gist is that SA can't effectively use bayes until it's seen a reasonable sample of both kinds of email. In the extreme, if you tried to use bayes after you gave it 200 spams and 0 ham messages, everything would look like it had a 100% chance of being spam, since there would be no ham tokens at all.
