On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, James wrote:
On 09/22/12 20:50, Glenn Sieb wrote:
On 9/22/12 8:36 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote:
On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote:
It didn't help. :-(
I got spam with a low score.
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,
        INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no
        version=3.3.2

I haven't trained my bayes, it seemed complex when I last looked.

The "BAYES_00" in the rule hits above strongly suggests that mistrained Bayes is the primary culprit (if this is indeed a FN).

If you haven't trained bayes, then return your required score to 5 and disable Bayes and see if it behaves better.

Then, collect a few hundred ham and spam messages, wipe your bayes database, train it properly using those messages, and reenable it.

Training is pretty simple. All you have to do is collect representative ham and spam messages in a couple of mail folders, and tell sa-learn to process them. The critical bit that usually causes problems is you must run sa-learn as the user that the MTA is running spamassassin as, or make sure that your configuration defines a system-global Bayes database.

You will probably want to set up a nightly cron job to run sa-learn against your ham and spam corpus folders. Then you can just add misclassified messages (spams from your inbox, and hams from your spam quarantine) to those folders as you encounter them.

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