On Thursday, September 04, 2014 11:26:01 AM LuKreme wrote: > > Is there a simple check to make sure salearn is working? > > (I get the message that "192 messages have been examined", > > and ~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen and bayes_tok are pretty large, > > 300kB and 5MB.)
> For the record, using sql for babes is considerably faster. Do you mean using SQL in some way would speed up salearn? Do you have a reference for that? Actually, I run salearn as a cron job in the middle of the night, so it doesn't matter too much to me if it takes 1 minute or 5 minutes. > > 4) I haven't found a short and simple SA tutorial, > > explaining how SA works, > > with a few tests that one might add to the default, > > and a couple of checks one could try to make sure it is working. > If you see X-Spam headers, it’s working. If in the X-Spam-Report you see > BAYES_ then that is working. I'm not certain that SA is taking account of the result of sa-learn. I'm surprised that the spam score does not seem to change significantly after many instances of almost identical messages are put through sa-learn. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland