MailScanner, SA and Bayes : still problems

[Julian Field]

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At 14:24 01/10/2004, you wrote:
>What happens with the sa-learn process is very strange.
>
>I have run sa-learn on several files downloaded from spamarchive.org and
>when I run spamassassin --lint -D, it seems that content of Bayes DB is
>removed !
>
>Learned from 913 message(s) (1117 message(s) examined).
>debug: Initialising learner
>debug: bayes: 31672 tie-ing to DB file
>R/O /usr/var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/bayes_toks
>debug: bayes: 31672 tie-ing to DB file
>R/O /usr/var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/bayes_seen
>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2
>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 15 ham(s) in Bayes DB < 200
>
>Should I shutdown spamd before running the spamassassin command ? How can I
>rebuild a fresh new Bayes DB ?

If you have only taught it lots of spam, and 15 ham (i.e. 15 non-spam
messages), then you will see this. It has to have at least 200 non-spam
messages as well as lots of spam messages before it will start using it.
Just let it run on your system for a while to let it auto-learn enough
non-spam and it should all start working.
--
Julian Field
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