More spam since moving to SA 3.0?

Matt Kehler mkehler at WRHA.MB.CA
Wed Sep 29 02:29:45 IST 2004


>>> mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 09/28/04 20:10 PM >>>
At 02:02 29/09/2004, you wrote:
>Since I moved to SA 3.0, I seem to have a LOT more spam getting by.  They
>all have the below scores in common when looking at the message details
>via MailWatch.  But a LOT of these are obviously spam messages, even
>though they score as below.
>
>spam autolearn=not
>-3.30 ALL_TRUSTED
>-2.60 BAYES_00 Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%

>>Did you do the Bayes db format upgrade as described >>in the installation
>>notes for SA3?

Yep, shut it all down, ran a sa-learn --sync

>Is this a problem with Bayes;

>>Most likely, yes.

>  and if so, should I just wipe it out and let it recreate from
> scratch?  And if so, can I just stop MS, delete the Bayes files and restart MS?

>>Yes you can. You don't actually need to restart MS >>in this situation, I
>>think SA3 rebinds to the db for every message.

Just to clarify then, is deleting everything from /root/.spamassasin/ the same as running a ' sa-learn --clear '?

thanks!
Matt


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