[Dovecot] deploying dspam

[tallison at tacocat.net]

> 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.
>

bogofilter recommends 1000+ but it's reasonably effective after only 100
of both ham and spam.