[Mimedefang] Mimedefang/Spamassassin/bayesian

[Lee Dilkie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> [mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of Paul
> Murphy

> The problem is that the documentation suggests that you 
> enable the two options,
> and sit back and watch the database being built as e-mail comes in.
> 
> The reality is that the two options enable the use of the 
> bayesian filter, but
> the database remains empty until you have trained it on a 
> suitably large dataset
> of spam and "ham".
> 
> Does anyone have a way of using Mimedefang to automatically 
> build the database,
> even if that means forwarding a copy of every message to 
> either a spam or ham
> mailbox, and then processing and deleting the mailbox daily?

you can use the auto_learn and avoid the training. You just have to be
patient.

very patient... eventually you start seeing "BAYES_" showing up in your test
result.

For me, that amounted to almost 2 weeks of patience. But it was worth it.
The bayes score is helping a lot now.

-lee