It's been well over 5000 emails and the bayes filter does not seem to be kicking in. everything still reports 0% spam. Do I just need to wait longer?

windows 2003 server 2.6 ghz, 1/2 gig ram build 302 mdac 2.8 logging to mysql on same server

Thanks.

Keizersozay,

Did you receive 5,000 spam and 5,000 good emails? The Bayesian filter kicks in after both good and bad count are over 5000. If so, even if your other filters were super-effective, you should see at least a small amonut of emails blocked by the Bayesian filter. Please note that the statistical analysis only occurs after all other filters have failed to catch spam, so the number of emails blocked by the Bayesian filter will be small when compared to others.

Can you try running the following query on the database? It returns a list of howm many emails in the quarantine have been blocked by the various rules, and post the results?

Roberto F.
LogSat Software

SELECT     tblQuarantine.RejectID, tblRejectCodes.RejectDesc, COUNT(tblQuarantine.RejectID) AS Total
FROM         tblQuarantine INNER JOIN
                      tblRejectCodes ON tblQuarantine.RejectID = tblRejectCodes.RejectID
GROUP BY tblQuarantine.RejectID, tblRejectCodes.RejectDesc

Hi Roberto,
Thanks for the response. It has been well over 5000 good and 5000 bad messages. I looked in the corpus.ini to confirm and it is more that double what it should be. When I ran the query I got this info:
+----------+------------------------------------------+-------+
| RejectID | RejectDesc                                            | Total |
+----------+------------------------------------------+-------+
|        2 | EmailFrom is in local blacklist file            |    27 |
|        4 | Empty Mail From                                        |  1287 |
|        8 | IP address is from a blacklisted country |  1721 |
|       12 | IP found in MAPS search                        | 18718 |
|       13 | Keywords found in content                     |  4038 |
+----------+------------------------------------------+-------+
5 rows in set (0.28 sec)

You should also know that I disable the bayes at night and enable it in the morning. I do this in reference to this problem http://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/showmessage.asp?messageID=3261 that I still have. I can't affort for the sevice to crash at night when I am not around so I just activate the bayes during the day.
Also in reference to the above messageID 3261 I have since moved the spamfilter program to a new "server" that is a 2.6 ghz dell workstation with .5 gig of ram with windows 2003 server. The server has nothing else on it except Trend Server Protect and mysql. The errors are much less frequent but it still happened (once) yesterday. I will try the latest build and see how it goes.
I was reading through the posts and it looked like Dan posted something a while back about not releasing stale connections and the service eventually bombs out..this is what happens to me eventually when I have bayes enabled.

this really isn't an emergency for me, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong with the bayes portion and to further help the development process.  I guess its possible that bayes just hasn't found anything yet....

Thanks again for a fantastic product.

I will download the new build shortly, but it may be until monday before I can set it up. Also, my log files are about 30 mb for each day so I will post it to our ftp site and email you with details.

Thanks again.

John,

What does your corpus.ini file have in it ... it is in the corpus folder.

Dan S.

I too have also yet to see the filter kicking in, only 4?

EMail from *** to *** passes Bayesian filter - 0% spam (0ms) < havent seen one say > 0%

running v2.0.1.302

query

Query1

RejectID	RejectDesc	Total
1	Domain is in local blacklist file	401
2	EmailFrom is in local blacklist file	140
4	Empty Mail From	743
12	IP found in MAPS search	3886
13	Keywords found in content	1484
14	Statistical filter match	4

corpu.ini

[Messages]
Spam=13817
Good=49039

Thanks