spamassassin doesn't seem to be using bayes

From: D. D. Brierton (darren_at_dzr-web.com)
Date: 10/21/05

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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:02:33 +0100

    I'm using FC4 with spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4. fetchmail delivers mail to
    a locally running postfix. spamd is running as a service, and spamc is
    called by procmail on my mail. My setup is almost identical to that
    desribed here:

    http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail

    However, despite the fact that I have trained spamassassin on a vast
    amount of both ham and spam using sa-learn, I suspect that Bayesian
    testing is not being applied. I became suspicious that this might be the
    case after receiving over a dozen almost identical messages and despite
    training spamassassin on them they are still not being identified as
    spam. So I started looking at the headers that spamassassin adds to each
    message more closely. Here is the header it added to a recent message
    from this list:

    X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP
    autolearn=failed version=3.0.4

    And here is an example of an incorrectly identified spam message:

    X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR,
    RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=no version=3.0.4

    Now according to this:

    http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html

    in the "tests" part of those headers I ought to see one of:

    BAYES_00
    BAYES_05
    BAYES_20
    BAYES_40
    BAYES_50
    BAYES_60
    BAYES_80
    BAYES_95
    BAYES_99

    Am I just getting confused or is Bayesian checking not happening?

    Best, Darren 

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