bayes engine not working?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 29 14:21:09 IST 2003


At 13:37 29/05/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've upgraded spamassassin to v2.55 and added the bayes_path to the
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf as per the FAQ.

I always do this by using the SpamAssassin User State Dir setting in
MailScanner.conf. This makes sure all the SpamAssassin files get put in 1
place.

>   The bayes_* files are being
>updated which is the good news but worryingly check_bayes_db -db
>/var/spool/spamassassin/bayes only reports 1 spam message which is the
>test message I sent to sa-learn.  I've noticed that several spam
>messages in the log have BAYES_ rules so is there a problem or is this
>normal in the beginning?  We use Outlook so I'm not sure how to feed
>sa-learn with the current spam in my inbox.
>
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: db format = on-the-fly
>probs, expir
>y, scan-counting
>0.000        0        1        0  non-token data: nspam
>0.000        0        9        0  non-token data: nham
>0.000        0     1522        0  non-token data: ntokens
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: oldest age
>0.000        0       13        0  non-token data: current scan-count
>0.000        0        0        0  non-token data: last expiry scan-count
>
>thanks
>Anjana

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