thanks Robert... > And don't worry about the ratio -- I feed Bayes spam/ham in a 10:1 ratio, and it's working wonderfully.
ok.. unfortunately i have to report that for me there isn't much difference. overnight i got 88 messages in my mailbox. 72 of them were spam - not detected by sa. in the same period of time there were about 100 - 110 messages correctly tagged as spam. so it's more like 60% of the spam gets stopped and the rest goes through undetected. i guess it's still not working correctly.... when i first fed the spam and ham i used messages that were sent directly to my account. i was expecting much higher rate of spam detection. i'm experimenting with a vpopmail set up. here are the db permissions: -rw-r----- 1 root vchkpw 688128 Jan 11 16:01 bayes_seen -rw-r----- 1 root vchkpw 5439488 Jan 11 16:01 bayes_toks where vchkpw is the vpopmail group. maybe i'm still doing something wrong... here is my own user-prefs and below i have examples of X headers of detected spam and spam that got through: required_hits 3.00 rewrite_header Subject [SPAM] bayes_path /var/spamdb/bayes defang_mime 0 use_terse_report 1 (i realize defang_mime and use_terse_report are old directives but i figured they wont hurt the process - do they?!) score ADVERT_CODE 2.00 score BILL_1618 3.00 score DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 3.00 score FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 3.00 score INCREASE_SALES 4.00 score MIME_EXCESSIVE_QP 3.00 score MONEY_BACK 1.00 score MORTGAGE_RATES 5.00 score MSGID_CHARS_WEIRD 3.00 score MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA 3.00 score MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2 3.00 score OFFER 3.00 score ORDER_NOW 3.00 score PENIS_ENLARGE 5.00 score PORN_12 5.00 score PORN_4 3.00 score SAVE_MONEY 3.00 score SMTPD_IN_RCVD 3.00 score SUBJ_MISSING 3.00 score VIAGRA 5.00 score WANTS_CREDIT_CARD 3.00 also there is a bunch of white and black listed domains.. headers of spam that GOT THROUGH: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on chavo.el.net X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=3.0 tests=HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP, HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR autolearn=no version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on chavo.el.net X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.7 required=3.0 tests=DRUGS_ERECTILE, DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU,HELO_DYNAMIC_DIALIN,RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP autolearn=no version=3.0.2 this is DETECTED SPAM: X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on chavo.el.net X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.0 required=3.0 tests=HELO_DYNAMIC_COMCAST, INFO_TLD autolearn=no version=3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on chavo.el.net X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.6 required=3.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24, DRUGS_ERECTILE,DRUGS_PAIN,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,MIME_BASE64_TEXT autolearn=no version=3.0.2 note that the ones that were detected scored 4 - lower than the actual default of the recomended 5.... i'd really appreciate any help to make sa detect at least 90% of incoming spam... thank you...
