I'm wondering if this is a typical problem or if I have something amiss.  We have been running Spamfilter on a win2k machine for about 2 months and the bayesian filter does really well.  We had over 200,000 connections logged as of 2 days ago. 

We applied some Windows hotfixes 2 nights ago and restarted the server.  Everything restarted fine, but the inbound connections served and the good/spam email counts got reset to 0.  And it appears that the Bayesian filter is not working. 

I checked the corpus.ini file and it shows the large numbers I would expect, but the interface does not.  And the Bayesian filter is not working today (we have less than 5K of good/spam emails).  How can I avoid this in the future and is there a way to reset this now?

What counts exactly are you talking about? Are you refering to the 'Emails forwarded', 'Emails blocked' and 'Email Attempts' counters on the SF GUI?

If so by default they reset to 0 when you restart SF. I do not believe they effect the bayesian filter or the corpus database in anyway - its a seperate counter.

If you do not want these figures to reset when you restart SF, there is an option under the Settings > Configuration tab which reads "Remember Stats on restart". Ticking this will stop your counters from being reset.

If we are talking about the same thing, as I said before, I don't believe this setting or these counters have anything to do with the bayesian, so if you are having problems with that filter, I think you may have another issues not related to counters.

hookjd,

lyndonje is absolutely correct. The Bayesian stats are maintained separately, and will always be "remembered".

what % of probability do you guys have bayesian set too?  I have this feature currently turned off as i was getting a lot of false positives.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.