Matthias +all, Thank you very much.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:02:53PM +0200, Matthias Haegele wrote: > > You only mentioned running sa-learn on spam you should also learn your > hammessages, both is important. Bayes-Performance will only be good if > learned on both, ham and spam. Yes, thank you. For the sake of brevity I did not describe fully what I do, but I do indeed run sa-learn on the ham too (I have a nightly cron job that collects all the mail from a selection of folders and concatenates it into one mbox; I then run sa-learn --ham on that and sa-learn --spam on the spam folder). > >...and now I'm not so sure that it's a good idea to change the rules' > >scores. I suppose I could reduce the threshold to 4.5; but I don't know if > >that's a good thing either. > > I reduced the treshold too, but also watch quarantine regularly for FPs, > it works fine for me ... I haven't yet done this (but am still thinking about it) see below... > > >What's the best way for me to improve SA performance (bearing in mind that > >I'm really only an amateur spam fighter). > > > >Thanks in advance.... > > perhaps you could use: > clamav sanesecurity > SARE Rules > Botnet plugin > too ... Well thanks for this. I do clam checking before SA so I guess clamav sanesecurity would be duplicating that... I have just now included many of the SARE rules in my sa-update. I am almost looking forward to getting some spam to see if they work! :) ...I presume that simply adding the rules via sa-update (as per the instructions on the wiki) is enough - they don't have to be "activated" in any way do they? Having added all the extra SARE rules I haven't changed the overall threshold until I see what effect they have. Where can I find out more about the Botnet plugin? (There doesn't seem to be a reference to it on the wiki). Thanks again. AD
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