Help!! URGENT!!

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Daniel Bird [mailto:dbird at SGHMS.AC.UK]
>Envoyé : 29 mars, 2004 21:58
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Help!! URGENT!!
>
>
>kfliong wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As some of you might know from my previous mails that I am trying to
>> setup
>> bayes to work correctly on my system. But so far it has been 
>a disaster.
>>
>> Now, my bayes files are growing like crazy...
>>
>> [kkcho at ensim bayes]$ ls -l
>> total 16360
>> -rw-rw----    1 root     apache      49238 Mar 30 09:31 bayes_journal
>> -rw-rw----    1 root     apache    2641920 Mar 30 09:31 bayes_seen
>> -rw-rw----    1 root     apache   16162816 Mar 30 09:31 bayes_toks
>>
>> And still growing. I have done so many things on the bayes 
>that I don't
>> know which setting causes this bayes to automatically grows. 
>Could it be
>> "use_bayes 0" which i have changed to "use_bayes 1"? Or somewhere in
>> MailScanner.conf that causes bayes to auto learn???
>>
>> Please help as a lot of mails are now considered spam and 
>spamassassin
>> went
>> crazy...everything he sees is spam and causes no mails been 
>delivered to
>> the recipients. My boss is screaming like crazy why she is not
>> receiving mails.
>>
>It's late (or is that early???) here in the UK so don't put too much
>faith in my answer, but If you're having that much of a 
>problem I'd turn
>off bayes in MailScanner and blast the bayes db.
>
>stop MailScanner, set use_bayes to 0 and delete the bayes db 
>files.

BTW, this setting is in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.conf file.

> Then
>start up MailScanner again. That should stop your problems for now.
>
>Also, I could be way off the mark, but it sounds like you've got your
>spam scores and high spam scores set way too strict for your site if
>bayes and MS are learning legit emails for your site as spam. Try
>starting again with higher values and see what happens...
>
>I'm off to bed now....
>
>HTH
>
>Dan
>
>> Also the problem is I put "store" as one of the options in the spam
>> so, the
>> mails are still stored but I can't find any way to release 
>them properly
>> especially when there are attachment in them.
>>
>> Please let me know how to stop this spamassassin from going 
>crazy......
>>
>> PLEASE HELP....
>>
>> thanks
>>
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