bayes_journal file size

[Furnish, Trever G]

If you don't know, then it's probably in some user's .spamassassin directory
(typically root's).  You probably want to look at the config file
/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf and ponder this setting:

bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Douglas [mailto:steve.douglas at SBIINCORPORATED.COM]
>Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:24 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: bayes_journal file size
>
>
>I have incorporated MS with SpamAssassin, but I can not locate
>where this
>bayes database exists.  Am I missing something?  I would like
>to at minimum
>check the size of my database and autolearn if necessary.  Thanks.
>
>SD
>:-)
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Spicer [mailto:kevins at BMRB.CO.UK]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:16 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: bayes_journal file size
>>
>> >Is there
>> >a setting that I can adjust to put a cap on this
>> >bayes_journal file?
>>
>> You should run   sa-learn --rebuild    periodically.
>>
>> The other largish file is the bayes_toks file which will
>initially tend
>> to grow quite quickly, as the Bayes engine learns new
>tokens.  Over time
>> this rate of growth will slow, and IIRC tokens which have
>not been used
>> for a while are removed (not sure on that).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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