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[ILUG] Spamassassin + Bayes

[ILUG] Spamassassin + Bayes

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Mon Sep 13 15:57:08 IST 2004


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Des Keane writes:
> > Spamassassin (with Bayes) doesn't seem to be doing a great job
> > on one system I use.
> 
> If you're using 2.6.x try using 3.0 pre-release, I found it to be much more effective.
> 
> > DEFAULT SCORES (local, net, with bayes, with bayes+net).
> > 
> > My question is: what do these 4 numbers mean?
> > What exactly is "net"?
> 
> AFAIK,
> local = tests you've carried out locally (e.g. header and body scans against regular expression rules)
> net = primarily DNS based realtime blackhole lists & URL blacklists, also Razor online database etc.
> bayes = bayesian learning database
> 
> They're separate because the different scores are taken into account for different purposes, e.g. auto-whitelisting vs scoring.
> 
> > It's amazing to me that having collected this vast array of data
> > it does not occur to the documentor to explain what it means.
> 
> I guess documentation is everyone's favourite task! :-)

it's documented in the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf manual page/on
the website.

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