[spambayes-dev] Spam and ham count can be negative !

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 19 September 2003 13:28, papaDoc wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to patch sb_mboxtrain to train on only the email not more
> than x days old.  I want to do that since I'm keeping all my email and
> if I train on all my emails the db becomes too big.

Im doing a similar thing, running sb_mboxtrain every night to do a full train 
on all emails from the last few years. I actually run a wrapper around 
sb_mboxtrain that sniffs the location of my ham and spam folders from my 
kmail configuration.

>The problem is I NEVER TRAINED the database on this email.
> So the spam or ham count can becomes negative !!!!

You need the -f switch to sb_mboxtrain.

-- 
Toby Dickenson