jdow wrote: > From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > jdow wrote: > > > > > > Importune on them to feed you as large a collection of ham and > > > spam as they can, once. Then turn on autolearn, cross your > > > fingers, and put on your flack jacket. > > > > What flack jacket? I have Bayes turned on now and I never did any > > manual training on most of the accounts. I just turned it on and > > let autolearn (with the default settings) do it's thing. So far, I > > have received very few complaints. > > > > But then again, I think less than half of my users are even taking > > advantage of the spam markup. Since I don't do any blocking or > > sorting on the server, it is up to them to use MUA rules to sort or > > delete the spam once my server has marked it. > > Fairly frequently I see evidence that autolearn can massively misfire > on SpamAssassin startup. It does not always happen or there'd be a lot > more messages about it. But there is apparently a vulnerable period > that can go bad with just the wrong selection of messages. Once the > database is large inertia will save the day.
Right. I understand the danger of doing things this way. I was just pointing out that my users don't generally complain about spam. I assume SpamAssassin is doing well for them, but since they never tell me anything, I really have no idea. -- Bowie
