The Party Line on Bayes settings?

[Julian Field]

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I don't know about al, but personally I haven't tried this yet. I'm just
letting SA do its expiry runs when it wants to. Doesn't seem to be
generating bayes_toks.expire files, so I'm going to leave it well alone.
No pearls of wisdom on this occasion, sorry :-)

At 17:59 06/10/2004, you wrote:
>Julian et. al,
>
>Could you say a few words about the recommended settings for using
>Bayes with SA 3.0 and the latest MailScanner?  I had the common
>problem of bayes_toks.expire files piling up after upgrading to
>SA 3.0.  I read thru the FAQ on Bayes lock files
>(http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/303.html)
>and followed this advice.  I used to have (with MS 4.33 and SA 2.64)
>Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400, but I now use the factory default of
>zero.  I have a cron job that runs the attached shell script once
>a day, to learn spam/ham and do the force-expire/sync, which came
>out of list posting months ago.
>
>I'm getting to the point where I'm really wondering if I'm doing
>Bayes correctly any more.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.  Maybe
>Julian's wisdom on this could make it to the MAQ?

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