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I don't have a tutorial handy, but can tell you how to change at least that field. Go into cpanel and run File Manager. Navigate to the .spamassassin directory and you will see a file called user_prefs You will see that it has info in it such as your current required hits, etc... Simplay add the line: score BAYES_99 3 and save it. Of course, you can alter the "3" to whatever you want. My threshold is currently 4.1 and I found 3 to be right for me.

It's been a week since the change, and I am happy to report that bumping up my BAYES_99 score really did the trick. Now I use: score BAYES_99 3 And my threshold is 4.1

Unfortunately......if you add up the bayes+net scores you ALSO get 2.7 So my hunch was incorrect.... Back to the drawing board. I am thinking of bumping up my BAYES_99 score.

I've been having the same problem, and did a little investigating. In my headers, the BAYES_99 rule is showing up a lot, yet the spam scores are still very low (in the 2's) [NOTE: the following all implies that you have spamassassin 3 installed] Looking at the spamassassin defaults, BAYES_99 is set to "0 0 4.070 1.886" which means: local = 0 net = 0 with bayes = 4.070 with bayes+net = 1.886 Now take an example email I just got: X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.7 required=4.1 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_80_90, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_06,HTML_MESSAGE, HTML_TEXT_AFTER_BODY,HTML_TEXT_AFTER_HTML,TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL BAYES_99: 0 0 4.070 1.886 HTML_80_90: 0.027 0 0.036 0.146 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20: 1.567 0.843 1.023 0.446 HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_06: 0.072 0 0.342 0.131 HTML_MESSAGE: 0.001 HTML_TEXT_AFTER_BODY: 0.263 0.151 0.752 0.061 HTML_TEXT_AFTER_HTML: 0.312 0.205 0.032 0.031 TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL: 0 0.470 0.131 0.026 If you add them up, the "local" scores = 2.7 Based on this, it is clear that Bayes is turned off (at least for me) and I am going to re-enable it by adding "use_bayes 1" to my config file. I'll report back on how it goes....

Does the email filter apply BEFORE spamassassin, or AFTER? In other words, could it be used to do much fancier whitelisting than spamassassin allows? Or would it bypass spamassassin completely in this case?

Hate to reply to my own post so soon, but I think I found some answers... It looks that by default spamassasin will not apply BAYES rules until it has seen 200 spam and 200 ham messages. I have gotten the spam number for sure, but I don't have that much ham in my database since I've cleared it. I do notice that it is flagging many messages per day as spam via the autolearn=spam headers. I will play with the 'bayes_min_ham_num' setting in my user prefs and see if things start to kick in.

I turned of bayes via use_bayes=0 and it worked. However, my spam that got through went way up. I decided to turn it back on and am still, 5 days later, not getting a single BAYES rule hit in any email. The databse files in my .spamassassin directory were being updated, so at least that wasn't broken. But I figured 5 days would be long enough for things to be trained and start seeing BAYES rules applied. I since completelely disabled spamassasin, manually deleted the .spamassassin directory, and then re-enabled it. This was in hopes of reinitializing something that may have broken... Anyone know more about this? How long it might take? Is there any user level training one can do? I had used another bayes program in the past, Popfile, and it had you train it based on every message you thought was spam. I'm not sure how spamassassin handles this.

I'm just starting to see a lot of Bayesian scores in my spams, and I was wondering the same thing. Is there some way for us to tune our own SA Bayes info? I see the files in my .spamassassin directory, but I don't know how to do any tuning.