That happened to me and it was because the sysadmin had deactivated Bayes by default. Try adding "use_bayes 1" to your user_prefs file and see what happens.
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:20:59AM +0300, Harri Pesonen wrote: > > I just yesterday installed SAProxy for use with Outlook Express POP3 > account. It works, but when I try to teach it my old spam collection, > it does not learn from it! I use the --dir option, and save e-mails in > .eml format from OE. Sometimes it learns a couple of messages from one > hundred. I also got some spam that SA didn't detect, and saved those > messages into Spam folder, run sa-learn, and again it said 0 messages. > > > > The only explanation I can think is that perhaps they all have the > same message id? Then sa-learn should have an option to ignore the > message id, and just add it. It does not matter to add the same spam > message twice, either, because then it just gets extra weight? > > > > Also shouldn't SA detect that messages have the same id, and mark the > message as spam? It could have a dynamic database of the latest one > million messages that I got, for example. > > > > I don't know if sa-learn fails because of duplicate message ids, > though. Any other suggestions are wellcome. I also tried -D switch > once but it didn't say anything about the ignored messages. > > > > How does the --forget option work? If I use it with all spam, do they > get learned as separate messages or does it always remove the old data > from database first? > > > > -- > > Harri -- Daniel Carrera | PGP: 6643 8C8B 3522 66CB D16C D779 2FDD 7DAC 9AF7 7A88 Math PhD. UMD | http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/pgp.html * * * * * Weekly Smile * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sign in a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
