Re: spamassassin doesn't seem to be using bayes

From: Craig White (craigwhite_at_azapple.com)
Date: 10/21/05

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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:07:45 -0700

    On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 16:02 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
    > 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? 

    ----
try running...
spamassassin -D --lint
and checking the output of that
Craig
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