SpamAssassin Errors High Viruses

[Stephen Conway]

Good day :

Thanks for the input, sorry for not being more specific, other than that all
I am getting in maillog is 'SpamAssassasin timed out , ..'

I ran the sa-learn, here is output:

]# sa-learn --force-expire

............................................................................
...................................................expired old Bayes
database entries in 16 seconds
127486 entries kept, 0 reprieved, 0 deleted
token frequency: 1-occurence tokens: 72.06%
token frequency: less than 8 occurrences: 20.15%

Still am seeing a lot of timeout errors, any ideas to get more logging
maybe?

Thanks,

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Matt Kettler
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 1:40 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Errors High Viruses

At 11:45 AM 6/14/2004, Stephen Conway wrote:
>1)   Does anyone know of any SpamAssassin issues,
>and

I've seen bayes expiry cause SA timeouts before. However, it's hard to say
what your problem was since you were completely non-specific about what
errors SpamAssassin was giving you a lot of.

if it's timeouts, you can try running sa-learn --force-expire to manually
force a bayes expiry, which should clear the problem up for a little while.

In general, I'd recommend setting "bayes_auto_expire 0" in your
spam.assassin.prefs.conf. However, make sure you've got some kind of expiry
mechanism in place when you do it. Newer versions of MailScanner can do it
for you.  Older versions you can use a cronjob to call sa-learn
--force-expire. Just make sure the cronjob runs as "root" instead of "cron".

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