From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC0D10344 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:08:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F2A74269275; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:08:43 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:08:43 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: ot, spamassassin question Message-ID: <20100119230843.GA18295@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20100118221622.GA22442@romuald.net.eu.org> <021B6511737343729A504DFA31EF0E35@math.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <021B6511737343729A504DFA31EF0E35@math.wisc.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:08:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi John and all, According to the comments in local.cf, the option use_bayes was set to 1 by default, so I didn't uncomment it when initially setting things up. I've uncommented it now though, and sent a test message, to see if there is any change in the headers, but they are as they've always been: "X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on linserver.romuald.net.eu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5". These are the headers from my test message, and the scores are higher than 0 on other messages of course, though I'm not sure how much of what has come in was marked higher than 5, if any of it. I searched the spamass docs for a verbose logging option like you mentioned, but don't see any such option. Can you please be more specific on what I should be looking for, or what to place into local.cf to get the desired behavior? Thanks. Greg On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:43:38PM -0600, John G. Heim wrote: > One thing you should check is to see if bayesian filtering is even > working. Maybe the sa-learn command is having no effect for one reason or > another. You can configure spamassassin to put a verbose log in the > message header. If you do that and if bayesian filtering is working, you > should see lines like the following in the message headers: > > * 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% > > That line is good. It means spamassassin used bayesian logic to figure > out that this message was spam and added 3.5 to the spam score. If it > was only 50% certain, it would have added less. If the probably is less > than that, it subtracts from the score. > > You can check to see if bayesian filtering is working by looking for > lines like the one above in your message headers and seeing if > spamassassin seems to be learning to identify spam. If those lines do not > appear or if the probabilities don't seem to be increasing as you'd > expect, you will have to investigate further. > > Things to check: > Is bayesian filtering turned on in your spamassassin local.cf file? > Does the end user have write access to her bayesian rules database file? > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktWO3sACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCAIACdFuP6nXSH1+HMN92d754KAlh3 d0cAni5pEqXdonbLwn4iamFk1kQZdnpw =KdvF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----