I know this may sound crazy should we see in the quarntine emails that are "Baysein Filtered" or something like that? I stopped the filter on Monday am, deleted the corpus files and restarted so we can "retrain" the filter. Now it's been a couple days and the activity log shows Baysein filtering 0% but I cannot find one quarantined message. The slide bar is set near the middle showing 98.75% filtering.

Am I overlooking the obvious here?

Thanks in advance,

Bob

Dan,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes learning is on and the .ini file is over 10,000 for both Spam and Good.

So next question: If the Bayseian filter quarantines a message is that stated in the log file? I've searched our logs to only find blocked by IP or keyword or attachements etc.. I'm looking for something that says blocked by Bayseian filter or something like that. Am I dreaming?

In the corpus directory there are a couple .tmp files, a .dat and .prg that are all over 3mb in size so something is working I'm just not sure I'm looking for the right results on a log file?

Hey,

The filter will get better and better as time goes on depending on how good your standard filters are because those are what the filter bases it's statistics on.  Also, I have my filter set at 99.something % in all cases.

Dan

First,  No, the percent is the level thatthe filter blocks at and the recomended value is in the 99% range so that you don't get overly agressive.

Second, the Bayesian filter builds it's information on what the filters teach it about the content of the messages that are blocked and as time goes on, it learns what the spam looks like.  In theory, once a good database is built, you could remove filters but I would not do that because I think that after a few days, it would start to reduce it's ability to detect garbage.

dan