SA and Bayes

[Julian Field]

At 08:36 06/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>somehow I get the impression that my SA/MS setup does not use bayes.
>These are the relevant entries of my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file:
>
>auto_whitelist_path        /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
>auto_whitelist_file_mode   0666
>
>bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
>bayes_file_mode            0666
>
>auto_learn 1
>
>use_bayes 1
>
>bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner
>bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
>
>
>This is what a check_bayes_db tells me:
>
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: db format = on-the-fly
>probs, expiry, scan-counting
>0.000        0      209        0  non-token data: nspam
>0.000        0     2320        0  non-token data: nham
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: ntokens
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: oldest age
>0.000        0     4505        0  non-token data: current scan-count
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: last expiry scan-count
>
>--- snipp ---
>
>If I interpret this correctly I have 209 spam and 2320 nonspam messages
>learned successfully. And as far as I can see both sa-learn and
>auto_learn seem to work. BUT: I never saw a single mail (spam and
>nospam) with a BAYES_ tag in the SpamAssassin score.

I have seen this too, there aren't any signs of it doing anything useful
with the bayes rules. I was hoping it was just another SA 2.50 bug which
will hopefully be fixed in SA 2.51.
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