Re: Number of rules

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:28 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp wrote:
> I'm using maia-mailguard with spamassassin 3.2.5.  For the most part  
> it seems to be working ok but I feel like too many messages are  
> hitting BAYES_00 (roughly 3.7% of all messages) and BAYES_99 is only  
> hitting about 1.7%.  I have bayes autolearn on with ham being learned  
> at -1.0 and spam learned at 8.0
> 
> I'm sort of thinking part of my problem is I just don't have enough  
> rules so I'm curious how many rules do other users out there have in  
> their spamassassin setup?

That's not the problem.

> I currently have about 2558 rules consiting of stock rules, SOUGHT,  
> KHOP, SARE, some customer rules I wrote and various rules I've seen  
> posted on this list and other sites.  I have a few plugins enabled as  
> well (FreeMail, iXhash, Botnet, ASN, Pyzor, Razor2, DCC)
> 
> I know some of it is just training of the bayes but I'm wondering if  
> just lack of rules might be causing some of my problems.

Exactly. I seriously doubt lack of rules is your problem.

Instead, you should do more manual Bayes training. In particular, (a) do
feed sa-learn all spam messages with a low Bayes score regardless of the
overall SA score, and  (b) train with all generally low-ish scoring
spam.


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