ot, spamassassin question

[Gregory Nowak]

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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?
>


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