Messages to myself fail.

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:20:01 John Culleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:13:04 John Culleton wrote:
> > I send a message to myself using one email address to send and
> > another to receive. Routinely it gets a bogosoity of 1.0 and gets
> > sent to the Spam folder. I move it from Spam to Ham and rerun
> > bogofilter.  Then I run a similar or identical test message and
> > it goes to Spam again.
> >
> > When I run my spam filter script I get numbers like these:
> >
> > -- Total   messages: 6036
> >
> > Total        ham: 825
> > Misdetected  ham: 220
> >     retrain fail: 8
> >
> > Total       spam: 5211
> > Misdetected spam: 280
> >     retrain fail: 14
> >
> > Any hints on what I can do?
> >
> > John Culleton
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> I reran my bogofilter script a couple of times and the numbers are
> changing:
> Total   messages: 6040
>
> Total        ham: 825
> Misdetected  ham: 12
>     retrain fail: 7
>
> Total       spam: 5216
> Misdetected spam: 19
>     retrain fail: 11
>
> Are these good or bad? Should I just keep rerunning my script?

Let me ask again: Does running my script several times in a row yield 
better results than just once a day? the retrain fail number seems to 
go down each time through about 5 iterations of my training script.
-- 
John Culleton
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