Mailing List Archive: How to start over with Bayes

How to start over with Bayes

Feb 8, 2004, 2:59 AM

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I didn't get an answer to my first post, so I want to try again.

I want to know how to "start fresh" with Spamassassin/Bayes. I want to know
this in general, and I have a specific reason too.

My mail is in mbox format, but the first time I ran sa-learn, I didn't
specify the --mbox option. Thus sa-learn thought it was processing one HUGE
email that was actually 400+ mails all in a long file, including headers
etc. Thus I assume a lot of stuff was evaluated that shouldn't have been?

I deleted all the user-specific files I could find with bayes in them, eg
bayes_toks. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled Spamassassin. However, when
I ran sa-learn on the spam corpus with the proper --mbox option, it said it
learned from zero messages, although it correctly reported that it examined
400+ - Thus it remembered seeing those emails from previous, and I still
don't have a fresh slate.

Maybe it's OK as I did it originally, but I still want to know how to start
completely over fresh and will appreciate that specific information. Please
don't tell me to run --forget - I want to start completely over. Thanks -
John

Re: How to start over with Bayes [ In reply to ]

mostlyharmless at optonline

Feb 8, 2004, 8:30 AM

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John Fleming wrote:

> I didn't get an answer to my first post, so I want to try again.
>
> I want to know how to "start fresh" with Spamassassin/Bayes. I want to know
> this in general, and I have a specific reason too.

AFAIK, you should be able to just delete the bayes database files.

Re: How to start over with Bayes [ In reply to ]

atbaxter at baxtersys

Feb 8, 2004, 8:47 AM

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:59:32 -0500, "John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>
wrote:
>Maybe it's OK as I did it originally, but I still want to know how to start
>completely over fresh and will appreciate that specific information. Please
>don't tell me to run --forget - I want to start completely over. Thanks -
>John

Delete bayes_seen, bayes_toks, and bayes_journal.

Alan
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Re: How to start over with Bayes [ In reply to ]

john at wa9als

Feb 8, 2004, 9:36 AM

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Baxter" <atbaxter@baxtersys.com>
To: "John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>
Cc: <spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: How to start over with Bayes

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:59:32 -0500, "John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>
> wrote:
> >Maybe it's OK as I did it originally, but I still want to know how to
start
> >completely over fresh and will appreciate that specific information.
Please
> >don't tell me to run --forget - I want to start completely over.
Thanks -
> >John
>
> Delete bayes_seen, bayes_toks, and bayes_journal.

THANK YOU THANK YOU - I missed the journal!

Re: How to start over with Bayes [ In reply to ]

jm at jmason

Feb 8, 2004, 10:45 PM

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John Fleming writes:
> I didn't get an answer to my first post, so I want to try again.
>
> I want to know how to "start fresh" with Spamassassin/Bayes. I want to know
> this in general, and I have a specific reason too.

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