• How many msgs in mailgood and mailspam dbs?

    By Marco Esposito 2 decades ago

    In order to avoid troubles with big dimensions, how many messages should be kept in mailgood and mailspam dbs?



    We know that to start working we need at least 1000 msgs, but any idea of the top level?



    Many thanx in advance.



    Merry Christmas!



    Marco E.

    • MailSpam and mailgood Dimension

      By Nico Vis 2 decades ago

      Hi,

      you can reach 20.000 and more docs for mailspam, mailgood and even for the rules db.

      Depends on what you need and the time that you want to keep spam messages in the dbs.



      Regards,

      Nico

      • By Marco Esposito 2 decades ago

        >you can reach 20.000 and more docs for mailspam, mailgood and even for the rules db.

        >Depends on what you need



        Hi Nico.

        Thanx for your answer, but what I need to know is how many msgs I must to keep in mailspam/mailgood to have bayesan rules working properly.

        20.000 msgs are a good bound? or could it be less (let's say 10.000)?



        Many thanx in advance.



        Ciao.


        Marco

        • Re:

          By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

          That depends on a lot of factors; number of users, range of company operations… etc.. but there's no formula for it.



          In a small-medium sized company with <500 employees, I found around 2000 msgs was enough; but that's not to say your situation is the same.



          Also, there is probably a critical limit, when each additional message makes negligible difference to the Bayesian scores; at this point the cost of processing time would outweigh any advantage gained with more messages. So more is not necessarily better.



          Rgds,

          Tom