This should help explain the rules: http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests.html Steve
>Thanks a LOT to all who posted back (what a supportive community! >This was my first post) especially to Kris. > >On Friday 10 December 2004 18:21, Kris Deugau wrote: >> Yassen Damyanov wrote: >> > >> > debug: running meta tests; score so far=5.53 >> > debug: auto-learn? ham=0.2, spam=8, body-hits=4.166, head-hits=1.364 >> ^^^^^^^ >> This isn't exactly obvious, but this may be part of your problem. I've >> had trouble in the past with Bayes learning very low-scoring spam as ham >> - so I lowered the autolearn-as-ham threshold to -0.1. > >I examined the bayesian manual learning and it does seem perfect. > >I came to a conclusion that some real spams got scored very low and >poisoned the Bayes db, so it started to make mistakes and thus >poisoned itself even more, then made worse mistakes, ... etc. > >I switched off the auto_learning (not needed IMHO when we have >regular manual learning sessions) and then deleted the old database >and rerun the manual learning script. > >Expecting it all to be better now. Thanks again! > >BTW, how to interpret things like "tests=BAYES_56" or "tests=BAYES_00" >in the X-Spam-Status header? (Sorry for my ignorance.) > >Yassen > >-- > >Yassen Damyanov > >phone: +359-32-968-903 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ICQ# : 169382108 >web : www.troyer-is.com
