The Party Line on Bayes settings?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:01:18 +0200
> From: Peter Bonivart <peter at UCGBOOK.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: The Party Line on Bayes settings?
>
> Jeff A. Earickson 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.
>
> Do you have the original local.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin or do you
> have it symlinked to spam.assassin.prefs.conf? Supposedly the
> bayes_auto_expire setting is only honored in local.cf so if you have
> that one symlinked to spam.assassin.prefs.conf, like I do, you're ok.

I have /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf symlinked to MailScanner's
spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  In there I have bayes_auto_expire set to zero.
The Bayes database has always benn a semi-mystery to me.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

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