At Mon Aug  4 19:28:18 2003, Andrew Clarke wrote:
> 
> I've been using SpamAssassin for a couple weeks now, so I'm still pretty
> new to it.  I have use_bayes 1 and auto_learn 1 in my
> .spamassassin/user_prefs file so shouldn't that mean that it autolearns
> from my email?

Yes.  But it won't autolearn from all your mail.

> If I run "sa-learn --ham --mbox some_folder", it learns from the
> contents of the folder.  When I run it again, it says that it learned
> from 0 messages.  Well, if all these messages are new since I started
> using spamassassin, shouldn't it learn from 0 messages the FIRST time I
> run sa-learn?
> 
> I read somewhere on this list that auto bayes learning only happens for
> emails that score above or below a certain number, so it doesn't
> auto-learn from emails that are in the "grey-zone" between spam and ham.
> Maybe that's what's happening here? 

Correct.

Martin
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