[Mimedefang] bayesian working?

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Stephen Smoogen wrote:

>Ok, here are my lessons learned from my bad experience last month :).
>
>1) Get both good and bad emails. 
>2) Do not get too old of a folder of SPAM/HAM as it will weight older 
>dates/patterns too high. 
>3) Make sure you have more than the 1000 emails of both (or change your 
>numbers in /etc/mail/spamasassisin/sa-mimedefang.cf
>
    So far so good.  I went ahead and let it learn stuff from this year 
only, and it's already blocking e-mails that would've otherwise been 
allowed through.  That's a good start.

>Here is my settings for a small site. Make the 
>
    ...the cow spit milk?  ...the lama to spit?  ...the monkey to sing?  
...the girl to make coffee?

    [ and yes, I stole your configuration from a previous message 
already. :)  Thanks for sharing it though, it's doing it's job, or at 
least, I think it is.  I haven't had any indication that it's failing 
yet...]

    How often to you run sa-learn?

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