Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Mike Cappella
Dennis, On 7/31/2009 8:36 AM, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: I couldn't get sa-stats to give me any useful information. I did get amavis-logwatch and I am not sure if I like what it's showing me. I ran it against the last few maillogs I have so it encompasses basically the last month. Here is the relev

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting Karsten Bräckelmann : If I'm reading that correctly less then 50% of mail is actually being filtered (seems like it should be higher then that). Those stats Actually, the numbers you gave for the "last couple days" are even lower. About one third, <15k out of 45k do have a BAYES_xx hit

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 10:36 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I couldn't get sa-stats to give me any useful information. AFAIK it understands spamd logs, not Amavis logs. You would need to adjust the script for that -- as discussed just a few days ago. > If I'm reading that correctly less then 50%

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting Karsten Bräckelmann : On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:07 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then BAYES_00 has > triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 1568 (all the other > BAYES

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: Quoting John Hardin : On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then > BAYES_00 has triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 > 1568 (all the other BAYES_XX are less then 100

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, RW wrote: The main issue here is that your numbers don't add up, only about 1 in 10 of your 45,000 messages processed by spamassassin are accounted for in the BAYES statistics. ...which was my point. Rather than troubleshooting learning, at this point Dennis should be tr

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread RW
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:53:00 -0500 "Dennis B. Hopp" wrote: > I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then > BAYES_00 has triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 > 1568 (all the other BAYES_XX are less then 1000 times). In those > same couple of days we have p

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting John Hardin : On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then BAYES_00 has triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 1568 (all the other BAYES_XX are less then 1000 times). Do they all add up to about 45,000?

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:07 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > > > I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then BAYES_00 has > > triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 1568 (all the other > > BAYES_XX are less then 1000 time

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 07:53 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I know that the bayes success rate comes down to training, but like > every other administrator I can't possible check every message for > accuracy and I was hoping to make the auto learn a little better. I > thought maybe I just did

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: I cleared my maia statistics a couple of days ago. Since then BAYES_00 has triggered 4510 times, BAYES_99 2366 times and BAYES_50 1568 (all the other BAYES_XX are less then 1000 times). Do they all add up to about 45,000? In those same couple of da

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting RW : On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:55:48 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The default of 0.1. It's a default for a reason. But that *really* is not your problem. Your problem is with learning spam, not learning even more ham. Just as you mentioned in your original report. See my previous r

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread RW
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:55:48 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > The default of 0.1. It's a default for a reason. > > But that *really* is not your problem. Your problem is with learning > spam, not learning even more ham. Just as you mentioned in your > original report. See my previous response

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-31 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting LuKreme : On Jul 30, 2009, at 18:12, "Dennis B. Hopp" wrote: Yeah I knew that. I have a few negative scoring rules but not many (outside of what might be in the misc rules sets I have). What is a good threshold for ham then? 5.0 is the score SA us designed for. It's a very goo

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-30 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 30, 2009, at 18:12, "Dennis B. Hopp" wrote: Yeah I knew that. I have a few negative scoring rules but not many (outside of what might be in the misc rules sets I have). What is a good threshold for ham then? 5.0 is the score SA us designed for. It's a very good number in almost a

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-30 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 19:12 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > Quoting RW : > > > Bear in mind that autolearning uses it's own version of the score that > > excludes whitelisting and Bayes, which means that very little ham will > > reach the -1 threshold unless you've added your own site-specific rule

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-30 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Quoting RW : Bear in mind that autolearning uses it's own version of the score that excludes whitelisting and Bayes, which means that very little ham will reach the -1 threshold unless you've added your own site-specific rules for identifying it. Yeah I knew that. I have a few negative scor

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:28:49 -0500 "Dennis B. Hopp" wrote: > I'm using maia-mailguard with spamassassin 3.2.5. For the most part > it seems to be working ok but I feel like too many messages are > hitting BAYES_00 (roughly 3.7% of all messages) 3.7% of all messages sounds far too *low*, mo

Re: Number of rules

2009-07-30 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:28 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > I'm using maia-mailguard with spamassassin 3.2.5. For the most part > it seems to be working ok but I feel like too many messages are > hitting BAYES_00 (roughly 3.7% of all messages) and BAYES_99 is only > hitting about 1.7%. I hav