Hi, Seve - Thanks for your response. Is that just for performance reasons?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Freegard [mailto:steve.freeg...@fsl.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 2:24 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Bayes Autolearning > > All good advice there from Axb; the only thing I'd add to that is: > > bayes_auto_learn_on_error 1 > > Which prevents Bayes from over-training when the classifier already agrees > with what the autolearn is trying to train on. > > Cheers, > Steve. > > On 01/05/13 19:14, Axb wrote: > > On 05/01/2013 08:01 PM, Andrew Talbot wrote: > > > >> Any suggestions any of you have for a Bayes newbie - about what I > >> just asked or otherwise - would be very much appreciated. > > > > I advocate autolearning as it has always worked fine for me. > > Can take a bit longer to see good results but with some tuning I can > > sit back and hear it purr and not worry about collecting ham and spam > > and training, which under certain circumstances may even be impossible. > > > > Before moving on to Redis, these were my bayes settings > > > > # bayes.cf > > > > use_bayes 1 > > bayes_auto_learn 1 > > bayes_auto_expire 0 > > > > bayes_learn_to_journal 0 > > > > # Dont' want to wait for the deault 200 hams/spams bayes_min_ham_num > > 20 bayes_min_spam_num 20 > > > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -1.0 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 15.0 > > > > > > # FILE BASED > > # mkdir /etc/bayes > > bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes > > > > # Check permsisions/modify if needed > > #bayes_file_mode 0666 > > > > bayes_expiry_max_db_size 350000 > > # SDBM is faster than other r/w DBs > > bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SDBM > > > > # cron weekly > > # sa-learn --force-expire > > > > >