On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > > I have also fed probably 100 megabytes of 200 byte viagra/cialis type
>> > > messages to sa-learn, and the bayes score is still usually 0. Is
>> > > there a way to see if that is miss-firing somehow? One would think
>> > > bayes would
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> > > learn however many ways there is to spell it by now and score
>> > > accordingly.
>> >
>> > http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.htm
>> >l
>>
>> It appears I do not have that installed either, the first check I did,
>> which was to grep the spamassassin directories (/etc/mail/spamassassin/*
>> and /usr/share/spamassassin/*) for 'use_bayes' come up empty. So far in
>> my reading of the two pages the link above leads to, I am not seeing the
>> actual name of the file this config option is to be entered in. I would
>> assume local.cf, but there is that word again (assume)
>>
>> But when I ask cpan to install it, I'm installed and up to date. ???
>
>What are you talking about, Gene? How is that related to your question?
>
>
>Anyway, use_bayes defaults to 1, enabled. If you don't see it, it is
>enabled. Can be verified by the existence of BAYES_XX hits. use_bayes
>can be found in Learning Options, a sub-section of the section User
>Preferences. The latter begins with these words, which apply to the
>entire section:
>
> The following options can be used in both site-wide (local.cf) and
> user-specific (user_prefs) configuration files to customize how
> SpamAssassin handles incoming email messages.
>
>> > See the section Hammytokens/Spammytokens Tag Format. Or provide a link
>> > to samples.
>>
>> I've read that, and will do so again as I seem to be missing its message
>> on a quick read.
>
>That's how you can investigate the Bayes tokens for the messages that
>score neutral, despite learning. Isn't that what you asked for?
Something like that. I interpreted that as to expand the headers with a more
verbose line. I just checked a recently treated (and cleared) incoming
header, and the line is added, but its otherwise empty. So is the sa status
box kmail gives me. Duh.
But I'd expect to see some details there if its a 4 star message.
Thanks
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