> -----Original Message-----
> From: kalin mintchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: Matt Kettler
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: bayes?!
>
>
> > At 08:52 PM 1/10/2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
> >>apparently this massage never got to the list so here i'm
> sending it
> >>again.
> >
> > Your original message did reach the list.
>
> thanks Matt... i didn't get it. i looked at my spam folder too...
>
> >
> >>after all the way i describe below. i just checked my email
> and out of
> 24
> >>new messages 22 were spam. something's wrong....
> >>what could it be?
> >
> > Well, let's see here, you just sa-learn --spam'ed 2500 emails. How
> > many did you sa-learn --ham at the same time?
>
> about the same amount. mostly my own mail and mail from a
> different mailing lists although mail from the mysql list is
> categorized as spam right now..
>
> >
> > Have you looked at the X-Spam-Status of any of the
> messages? Look what
> > rules are matching, this will be your best hint to the problem.
>
> yes. but there isn't anything indicating that the spam db are
> used or tests are being done against them. should there be
> any? i read in the documentation that use_bayes is set to 1
> (true) by default so i don't have to add anything in the
> user-conf except the db location:
>
> bayes_path /path/to/spamdb
>
> does ending forward slash matter?
I think you may need to review the documentation on what format the
"bayes_path" parameter should take. As far as I can recall, it hasn't
changed for 3.x (I'm still running 2.64) and in the past the value was not a
path in the sense of directory but the leading part of the bayes DB file
names.
Do a 'man' on Mail::Spamassassin::Conf (I think that's the document) for
details.
>From the website:
bayes_path /path/to/file (default: ~/.spamassassin/bayes)
Path for Bayesian probabilities databases. Several databases will be
created, with this as the base, with _toks, _seen etc. appended to this
filename; so the default setting results in files called
~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen, ~/.spamassassin/bayes_toks etc.
By default, each user has their own, in their ~/.spamassassin directory
with mode 0700/0600, but for system-wide SpamAssassin use, you may want to
reduce disk space usage by sharing this across all users. (However it should
be noted that Bayesian filtering appears to be more effective with an
individual database per user.)
Also, please include the full headers in any messages you send to the list
and/or the output from spamassassin -D when requesting assistance with
message processing.
Hope this helps.
-Joe K.
