force-expire broke bayes? [Re: Bayes database size.]

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

I added --force-expire to my nightly 3am sa-learn cronjob. (previously
done with only --rebuild). Since 3am no messages have bayes scores at
all and it looks like autolearning is not working.

Could I have done something stupid?

-Eric Rz.

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:20:25AM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 08:40 AM 2/5/2004, Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald? wrote:
> >My question is: will the learning process stop when there is enougth
> >information on the database or will it continuosly learn new spam and ham
> >messages ?
>
> It will keep learning.
>
> >That it is, is there any limit in the number of spam and ham messages
> >learned
> >by the Bayes database ?
>
> Yes, read man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf if you want to try to change it.
>
>
> >If there is no limit, will my database continuosly increase its size until
> >I
> >run out of disk space ?
>
> No it won't, as long as the expiry process can successfully run now and
> again. The expiry pushes old tokens out of the bayes database if it's over
> the size limits.
>
> If you're using an older version of MailScanner on a busy server, you may
> need to run sa-learn --force-expire in your crontab. Newer versions of
> MailScanner manage bayes expiry automatically.
>
> (SA will try to "opportunistically" run expiry as it scans mail, but on a
> busy server, with multiple MailScanner children, it's unlikely to be
> successful, as it can only succeed in locking the bayes database when only
> one message is being SA'ed at the time it tries. Same rules of opportunism
> apply to autolearning. It only happens if it can be done without waiting
> for a lock.)