Spamassassin does not seem to be effective - did I do somethign wrong?

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#1 Mon, 01/11/2016 - 13:14
groston

Spamassassin does not seem to be effective - did I do somethign wrong?

All,

I recently installed and enabled spamassassin. I have been feeding ti (via sa-learn) message to learn, but it still catches, at best 25% of the spam. Following are some recent 'outputs':

[root@mysystem ~]# sa-learn --sync
expired old bayes database entries in 10 seconds
153966 entries kept, 137122 deleted
token frequency: 1-occurrence tokens: 59.15%
token frequency: less than 8 occurrences: 19.00%

[root@mysystem ~]# sa-learn --dump magic
0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version
0.000 0 8903 0 non-token data: nspam
0.000 0 2016 0 non-token data: nham
0.000 0 153966 0 non-token data: ntokens
0.000 0 1452365227 0 non-token data: oldest atime
0.000 0 1452537695 0 non-token data: newest atime
0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime
0.000 0 1452539293 0 non-token data: last expiry atime
0.000 0 172800 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta
0.000 0 137122 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count

I am wondering why it seems to be deleting almost as many entries as it is keeping. Is this normal? Are there any settings I should adjust? Based on my reading, I did see mention that the local setting should be turned off, but that does not appear to be set on my system.

Thanks for any suggestions you can provide.

Mon, 01/11/2016 - 20:58
CraigL
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I don't know if this is a bug or just something I am not doing correctly but I run spamassassin as a deamon (spamd) and cannot seem to get it to use user specific configurations - it seems to only use the server config (set from the Webmin->Servers->Spamassassin Mail Filter page). I set up Bayesian filtering to auto-learn with a limit of 10 for definite spam and -3.4 for non-spam which works ok.
I had to add my own filters to get a decent hit rate. It's a bit 'R' rated so I won't paste it here.

Craig Lawrie IT Services Manager DNG Technology

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