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Re: Purpose for SpamAssassin using MySQL

From: <bgodette(at)idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 12:44:26 EDT

Rob Mangiafico wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, [iso-8859-2] Micha³ Jêczalik wrote:

>> There are many. It allows you to share data between user accounts (IMHO it 
>> doesn't make much sense to have separate bayes databases for each account, 
>> at least they are of a 'massive' sort and users are not allowed to feed 
>> their own spam/ham etc. - because they share mostly the same data and the 
>> bayes is more up-to-date if one single database autolearns from many 
>> mailboxes). It allows you to share data among several hosts. It allows 
>> you to keep data on a remote host if you don't have enough space. Etc.

>
> Picking up on the point of one Bayes DB in MySQL vs. individual ones for
> each user, is it more effective in an ISP/host environment where you have
> diverse users to have them all share one Bayes DB with autolearn, or is it
> better if they each have their own Bayes data in MySQL (per user)?
>
> We're slowly converting to mysql for bayes, and have not decided yet which
> method would be best for our users and for the servers in general. Thanks.
>
> Rob
>
>

Per-user Bayes should be more accurate for each user assuming assuming the user can train false positive/negative, using the spam button to "unsubscribe" doesn't impact other user's accuracy. However there is a significant storage cost of per-user Bayes. Received on Wed Oct 3 12:54:36 2007

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