RE: Seeing Bayes token matches for an email - SpamAssassin
This is a discussion on RE: Seeing Bayes token matches for an email - SpamAssassin ; Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:29:21PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > I have an email that does not look at all spammy to me. On an
> > account where Bayes is trained ...
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RE: Seeing Bayes token matches for an email
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:29:21PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > I have an email that does not look at all spammy to me. On an
> > account where Bayes is trained manually (no auto-learn at all), it
> > got marked with BAYES_99. Is there a way to see what tokens Bayes
> > is keying on? I tried running it through "spamassassin -D", but I
> > didn't see it there.
>
> "spamassassin -D bayes"
>
> It's too noisy for the standard debug output, but the bayes channel
> will give you the full info.
I thought I already tried that. Oh well...
That gives me the info, now how do I interpret it?
[26088] dbg: bayes: token 'fax' => 0.0466125715533146
[26088] dbg: bayes: token 'may' => 0.951423151521604
[26088] dbg: bayes: token 'send' => 0.947622860965791
[26088] dbg: bayes: token 'sent' => 0.0562793425809908
The numbers seem to go from 0 to 1. Is 0 non-spammy and 1 spammy, or is
there more to it than that? If that's the case, there are quite a few
common words that bayes doesn't seem to like.
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Bowie
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RE: Seeing Bayes token matches for an email
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> That gives me the info, now how do I interpret it?
>
> [26088] dbg: bayes: token 'fax' => 0.0466125715533146
> [26088] dbg: bayes: token 'may' => 0.951423151521604
> [26088] dbg: bayes: token 'send' => 0.947622860965791
> [26088] dbg: bayes: token 'sent' => 0.0562793425809908
>
> The numbers seem to go from 0 to 1. Is 0 non-spammy and 1 spammy, or is
> there more to it than that? If that's the case, there are quite a few
> common words that bayes doesn't seem to like.
Remember, Bayes interprets tokens in relation to other tokens. Those
high-scoring tokens may be high-scoring due to context.
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