Bayes databases not updated and autolearn field missing from SpamCheck header

My BSD MyBSD at comcast.net
Fri Sep 3 14:00:09 IST 2004


On 9/3/2004 at 1:09 PM Martin Hepworth wrote:

>Hi
>
>check the ownship of the files. Are the Bayes files owned by the same
>user MS is running as??
>
>
>--
>Martin Hepworth
>Senior Systems Administrator
>Solid State Logic Ltd
>tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>My BSD wrote:
>
>> Used Julian's excellent script to install MS v. 4.33.3 with SA v.
>3.0.0-RC2.
>>
>> Everything works except that the Bayes databases are not updated and the
>> "autolearn=" field never appears in the
>> "X-%org-name%-MailScanner-SpamCheck:" header (unless the "use_bayes"
>> parameter is set to "0".
>>
>> However, if a message is processed manually (spamassassin -p
>> /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf < [message] >
>> [processed.message]) the databases are updated and the field appears (if
>> it should).
>>
>> The relevant Bayes configuration entries are:
>> use_bayes                            1
>> bayes_path                           /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
>> bayes_file_mode                      0600
>> auto_whitelist_path
>/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
>> auto_whitelist_file_mode             0600
>> bayes_auto_learn                     1
>> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam   0.1
>> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam      10
>>
>> Somehow, I believe that it has something to do with the SA.pm module and
>> SA 3.
>>
>
>
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That was it, thank you Martin.

Now I get the following value for the autolearn field (which doesn't make
sense because my nonspam learn treshold is 0.1):

"not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.642,  required 5.1, autolearn=not spam,
ALL_TRUSTED -2.82,      NO_REAL_NAME 0.18)"

Any ideas?

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