[Dovecot] deploying dspam

[Jethro R Binks]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 tallison at tacocat.net wrote:

> Bogofilter and SA, when they added Bayesian filtering) both exhibited a
> rather retarded functionality for the first 100 emails or so.  After a bit
> they began to learn.  Given that initial curve... Unless dspam starts with
> a preloaded wordlist or something else, I can't imagine it's success being
> significantly different at the beginning.

The SA instructions _specifically_ tell you that you must train the Bayes 
stuff _before_ using it; you have to feed it at least 500 spams and 500 
hams, or something along those lines.

I imagine similar tools suggest the same.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK