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

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